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Image: Trinidad and Tobago Weather Center. Diagram: Trinidad and Tobago Weather Center. The Intertropical Convergence Zone is an elongated area of convergence that can be broken into bands of showers, thunderstorms and overall cloudiness.

Average positions of the Intertropical Convergence Zones throughout the year. Image: BBC Bitesize. The movement of the Thermal Equator, which determines the movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone throughout the year.

Thunderstorm activity associated with the ITCZ and the 35th Tropical Wave of produced gusty winds which ripped off the roof of a home in Barrackpore, Southern Trinidad on the 15th August Image: Trinidad Express. Active and inactive areas of the ITCZ are visible on the above infrared satellite imagery. Credit: Weathernerds. Facebook Comments. Support TTWC! Recent News. Through the next five days, a deep-layered high-pressure system is Because of its location just north of the equator, Nigeria's climate is characterized by the hot and wet conditions associated with the movement of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ITCZ north and south of the equator.

This is easily seen in the normal monthly rainfall for two cities, Kano and Lagos, separated by miles km. When the ITCZ is to the south of the equator, the north-east winds prevail over Nigeria, producing the dry-season conditions. When the ITCZ moves into the Northern Hemisphere, the south westerly wind prevails as far inland to bring rain fall during the wet season. The implication is that there is a prolonged rainy season in the far south of Nigeria, while the far north undergoes long dry periods annually.

Nigeria, therefore, has two major seasons, the dry season and the wet season, the lengths of which vary from north to south. In southern Nigeria, Lagos averages The four observed seasons are:. The Intertropical Convergence Zone is a band of low pressure around the Earth which generally lies near to the equator. The trade winds of the northern and southern hemispheres come together here, which leads to the development of frequent thunderstorms and heavy rain.

These thunderstorms can reach, and sometimes exceed, 16 kilometres, 55, feet or 10 miles in height above the surface.

However, it is in this zone that the most severe effects may often be encountered. In particular, it is within the ITCZ that convective breakthroughs of the tropopause often occur, with the majority occurring over land, especially in the second half of each day.

Convective penetration of the tropopause is less common over oceanic areas where the phenomenon is more likely to occur in the early hours of each day, generating more isolated cells. For further information on the potential hazards of transit through or near Cb cloud, see the article Cumulonimbus Cb.