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In this week's meeting, we reviewed four climate regions found in Southeast Asia. They are (in the order of their location from the equator to farther away):

1. Tropical humid climate. Wet year-round. Singapore.

2. Tropical monsoon climate. Wet and dry with a short dry season. Phuket.

3. Tropical savanna climate. Wet and dry with a long dry season. Bangkok.

Tropical climates are hot year-around as they are close to the equator. Tropical monsoon and savanna climates have wet and dry seasons due to the seasonal migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).

4. Humid subtropical climate. Hot and muggy summers and mild winter. Hanoi (also Tokyo).

Tropical wet and dry climates and humid subtropical climate in the northern hemisphere have a wet summer and a dry winter. Note that the pattern is reversed in the southern hemisphere. Tropical monsoon climate (Jakarta) and tropical savanna climate (Dili) have a wet "winter (in the northern hemisphere)" and a dry "summer (in the northern hemisphere)".

A useful summary may be found on this webpage.

In the next meeting, we will discuss how people both indigenous and foreign, made use of tropical vegetation found in tropical climates in the history of Southeast Asia.

So far we have mentioned rubber, coffee, spices, rice and tea.