Tropical rain forest: warm and humid with monsoons and short dry season. Temperatures average greater than 18° C (64.4° F) year-round. Annual rainfall rarely totals less than 150 cm (59") and usually totals more than 200 cm (79"); this is sufficient to support rain forest -- despite a short dry season -- because of the heavy rains of the monsoon season. Vegetation is dominated by multiple-canopy broadleaf deciduous rain forests (jungle), though some areas may contain semideciduous forests, or grasses and herbaceous plants with patches of broadleaf deciduous or evergreen trees.
By Dave Bryant, copyright 2002