Editing West Timor (section)

=== Climate ===
West Timor is no exception to the general climate of the [[Malay Archipelago|Malay archipelago]]: the western part of the island of Timor has the characteristic monsoon climate. Thus, Timor also shows the familiar picture of Indonesia: the west monsoon in one half of the year, the east monsoon in the other. The west monsoon is a time of heavy, cloudburst rainfall in the months of October to May, the east monsoon a time of extreme dryness during the rest of the year, thus West Timor has large and wide-ranging savannas, and has fairly dry air temperatures, with minimal rainfal In the rainy season. When downpours happen, these rivers briefly become wild, raging torrents of water, which then cause major traffic and communication problems. In the past, these isolated plateaus and mountain landscapes favoured the emergence of politically relatively autonomous territories.<gallery class="center" widths="150">
File:Westtimor Land 4.jpg|link=|Rainy season at [[Soe, Timor|Soe]] (1990)
File:Westtimor Land 1.jpg|link=|Dry season in Fatu Le`u (1991)
File:Pante Macassar Klimadiagramm.png|link=|Climate diagram of East Timor's [[Pante Macassar]] ([[Oecusse|Oe-Cusse Ambeno]] exclave)
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