English-German translations for dry season

TrockenzeitdieDie kurze Trockenzeit hat begonnen, die Hitze ist brütend, giftiger Staub liegt in der Luft. The short dry season has started and a blanket of heat has descended on the country. Im Ogaden, der am stärksten betroffenen Region im Südosten von Äthiopien, hat es seit drei Jahren nicht mehr geregnet, so daß die Begriffe Trockenzeit und Regenzeit keinerlei Bedeutung mehr haben. In Ogaden, the most hard-hit region in south-east Ethiopia, there has been no rain for three years, to the point that the notion of dry seasons and wet seasons is now devoid of all meaning.

Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season

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