Thunder In A Tropical Forest

The jungle mist rises from the moist brown earth, caressing the trunks of tall palm trees, slipping past green palm fronds to eventually ascend into the sky, feeding the dark grey clouds above that threaten to turn the tropical forest floor into a raging river. You summon all your strength and continue walking through the thick and treacherous landscape, hoping to make it home before the storm gets close. "Tropical" is sometimes used in a general sense for a tropical climate to mean warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation. Many tropical areas have a dry and wet season. The wet season, or rainy season, is the time of year, covering one or more months, when most of the average annual rainfall in a region falls. The term green season is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. Areas with wet seasons are disseminated across portions of the tropics and subtropics. Under the Koppen climate classification, for tropical climates, a wet season month is defined as a month where average precipitation is 60 millimetres (2.4 in) or more. Tropical rainforests technically do not have dry or wet seasons, since their rainfall is equally distributed through the year. Some areas with pronounced rainy seasons will see a break in rainfall mid-season when the intertropical convergence zone or monsoon trough move poleward of their location during the middle of the warm season.