Editing Drought (section)

==== Dry season ====
{{See also|Dry season}}

Within the tropics, distinct, [[wet season|wet]] and dry [[season]]s emerge due to the movement of the [[Intertropical Convergence Zone]] or [[Monsoon trough]].<ref name="Wang">{{cite book|author=Bin Wang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRT57TENzT8C&pg=PT206|title=The Asian Monsoon|date=2006-01-13|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3540406105|page=206}}</ref> The dry season greatly increases drought occurrence,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y6r9jUTzJiYC&pg=PA349|page=349|title=Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought : A Global Study: A Global Study|author1=Vijendra K. Boken|author2=Arthur P. Cracknell|author3=Ronald L. Heathcote|date=2005-03-24|isbn=978-0198036784|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> and is characterized by its low humidity, with watering holes and rivers drying up. Because of the lack of these watering holes, many grazing animals are forced to migrate due to the lack of water in search of more fertile lands. Examples of such animals are [[zebras]], [[elephants]], and [[wildebeest]]. Because of the lack of water in the plants, bushfires are common.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/pages/seasons.html|title=Wet & Dry Seasons|access-date=2018-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320141721/http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/pages/seasons.html|archive-date=2012-03-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since water vapor becomes more energetic with increasing temperature, more water vapor is required to increase relative humidity values to 100% at higher temperatures (or to get the temperature to fall to the dew point).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadClouds.html|title=Bad Meteorology: The reason clouds form when air cools is because cold air cannot hold as much water vapor as warm air|author=Alistair B. Fraser|date=1994-11-27|access-date=2015-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316122724/http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadClouds.html|archive-date=2015-03-16|url-status=dead}}</ref> Periods of warmth quicken the pace of fruit and vegetable production,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id128/id128.pdf|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id128/id128.pdf|archive-date=2022-10-09|url-status=live|page=19|title=Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky|author=Cooperative Extension Service|publisher=[[University of Kentucky]]|date=January 2014|access-date=2015-02-18}}</ref> increase evaporation and transpiration from plants,<ref>{{cite web|author=North Carolina State University|title=Evapotranspiration|url=https://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.evapo|date=2013-08-09|access-date=2015-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219045714/https://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.evapo|archive-date=2015-02-19|url-status=dead|author-link=North Carolina State University}}</ref> and worsen drought conditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s909.htm|date=2002-05-16|access-date=2015-02-18|title=Warm Temperatures and Severe Drought Continued in April Throughout Parts of the United States; Global Temperature For April Second Warmest on Record|author=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219055008/http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s909.htm|archive-date=Feb 19, 2015}}</ref>