<Li> A lengthy wet season and a relatively short dry season . This version features seven or more wet season months and five or fewer dry season months . This version's precipitation pattern is similar to precipitation patterns observed in some tropical monsoon climates, but does not experience enough rainfall during the wet season to be classified as such . </Li> <Li> A dry season with a noticeable amount of rainfall followed by a rainy wet season . In essence, this version mimics the precipitation patterns more commonly found in a tropical monsoon climate, but do not receive enough precipitation during either the dry season or the year to be classified as such . </Li> <P> Tropical savanna climates are most commonly found in Africa, Asia and northern South America . The climate is also prevalent in sections of Central America, northern Australia, the Pacific Islands and southern North America, specifically in sections of Mexico and the state of Florida in the United States, and some islands in the Caribbean . Most places that have this climate are found at the outer margins of the tropical zone, but occasionally an inner - tropical location (e.g., San Marcos, Antioquia, Colombia) also qualifies . Similarly, the Caribbean coast, eastward from the Gulf of Urabá on the Colombia--Panamá border to the Orinoco river delta, on the Atlantic Ocean (ca. 4,000 km), have long dry periods (the extreme is the BSh climate (see below), characterised by very low, unreliable precipitation, present, for instance, in extensive areas in the Guajira, and Coro, western Venezuela, the northernmost peninsulas in South America, which receive <300 mm total annual precipitation, practically all in two or three months). This condition extends to the Lesser Antilles and Greater Antilles forming the Circumcaribbean dry belt . The length and severity of the dry season diminishes inland (southward); at the latitude of the Amazon river--which flows eastward, just south of the equatorial line--the climate is Af . East from the Andes, between the arid Caribbean and the ever - wet Amazon are the Orinoco river llanos or savannas, from where this climate takes its name . </P> <P> Sometimes As is used in place of Aw if the dry season occurs during the time of higher sun and longer days often due to a rain shadow effect that cuts off summer precipitation in a tropical area . This is the case in parts of Hawaii, East Africa (Mombasa, Kenya, Somalia), Sri Lanka (Trincomalee) and coastal regions of Northeastern Brazil (from Fortaleza through Natal to Maceió), for instance . The difference between' summer' and' winter' in such locations is usually so slight that a distinction between an As and Aw climate is a quibble . In most places that have tropical wet and dry climates, however, the dry season occurs during the time of lower sun and shorter days because of reduction of or lack of convection, which in turn is due to the meridional shifts of the Intertropical Convergence Zone during the course of the year . </P>

Where is the tropical wet and dry climate found