wet season

…flow, occurs only during the wet season. The tropical grassland climate overlaps very broadly with that of savanna. As previously stated, these vegetation types differ little from each other, a savanna being merely a grassland with scattered trees. Small changes in management and usage can convert one to the other.

…period during and following the wet season, when water is freely available to the plants; at that time savanna productivity can rival or exceed that of forests. Values for the aboveground biomass at its seasonal maximum range from 0.5 to 11.5 metric tons per hectare in drier regions (the higher…

The gu, or main rainy season, lasts from April to June; the second rainy season, called the dayr, extends from October to December. Each is followed by a dry season—the main one (jilaal) from December to March and the second one (xagaa) from June to September. During the second…