Principal climates in the world

Tropical climate

High temperatures and heavy precipitations throughout the year. The sky's really often cloudy. Persistent humidity..

D ry climate

Really high temperatures during the day and low ones during the night (sometimes they can go below the zero). The sky's constantly clear. Rare precipitations.

T emperate climate

Contrasting seasons (cold winter and hot summer). Really changeable weather conditions, strongly influenced by the passing of some atmospheric depressions (storms) or by the presence of an anticyclone.

H ot climate

Temperatures agreeables and moderate rains during the whole year. The temperatures are generally milder along the coasts than in the hinterland.

Cyclones

The season of cyclones in North Atlantic starts in june and ends at the end of november, and it raises his highest intensity between middle august and middle october. In the Southwestern Pacific the first cyclonic phenomenons appear in november they scatter around the end of april.In the Northwestern Pacific the cyclones can develop in every period of the year.
To give an exemple, in the Caribbean area during 2004 the cyclones took place (source Munich Ré):

• from the 11th to the14th of august for the hurricane Charley,
• from the 7th to the 21st septembre for the hurricane Ivan,
• from the 15th to the 29th of septembre for the hurricane Jeanne,
• from the 1st to the 9th of septembre septembre for the hurricane Frances .

M onsoons

Once a year in the Indian Sub-Continent, in the South-West Asie and in the Nort coast of Australia occurs a period characterized by torrential rains which steadily cause some flooding. The monsoon time usually follows a time of sustained drought.