section_path: Non-calendar-based reckoning/Tropical/Three seasons
section_name: Three seasons
paragraph_text: Three seasons
  
  The most historically important of these are the three seasons— flood, growth, and low water —which were previously defined by the former annual flooding of the Nile in Egypt. In some tropical areas a three-way division into hot, rainy, and cool season is used. In Thailand three seasons are recognised