African Climate Zones

Mediterranean climate zones

Northwest/ Southwest, mild and wet winters, warm dry summers

Kalahari

located in southwest, receives less than 10 in of rainfall anually

Steppe Region

low grasses, desert, some areas have no vegetation, deserts spreading in Africa because of climate modification and people changing the landscape

to be a tropical rainforest

must have at least 2.4 in of rain monthly

Tropical Rain forest

1. central portion and the eastern portion of Madagascar 2. most rain is in monsoon season, but every month there is rain

Savanna

30% of the continent is savanna, very tall grass(up to 6 ft)

arid/desert

Africa has the largest area of arid climate zones besides Australia Sahara, Horn in East

Sahara

Sahara in North saily and seasonal extremes of temperature are great, 90 F in July and below freezing at night

Steppe Climate zone

drier, outside the Savanna zone

tropical savanna

encompasses about 1/5 of Africa 1. wet season during summer months 2. dry season during winter months

tropical rainforest

equator runs through this area, hot sticky summer year long, 60-80 inches of rain per year

Eastern Africa

rainfall well distributed throughout the year, temperatures are equable

southern Africa

temperate