rainy season
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one of the two seasons in tropical climates
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A lean-season dish, it's a porridge made of millet leftovers combined with leafy vegetables that emerge at the onset of the rainy season.
Air Madagascar services the island's many small regional airports, which offer the only practical means of access to many of the more remote regions during rainy season road washouts.
Almost all of the rain falls during the rainy season, which is usually from April to December, but varies in length from seven to nine months.
Although its waters increase in volume during the rainy season, these are not swelled by the streams from the mountains on its western boundary, but by the strength of the current from the Mekon which pours into it its overflow.
Although rain falls throughout the year, about 50 percent of the annual total arrives in the summer rainy season that extends from May to the end of July along the coast and from April through September farther inland.
Although seasonal changes in temperature are not pronounced, the hottest period occurs during the rainy season, especially from February to April.