If an area that usually gets a lot of rain during the rainy season is getting less and less rain each year, where is that water going? Is it landing somewhere else or is it evaporating into the atmosphere permanently?
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It tends to fall down elsewhere on the planet. In general we have bands of different weather on the planet. It is humid and hot around the equator, then dry and hot further away, then wet and temperate followed by wet and cold further away and finally on the poles it is cold and dry. But these bands shift north during the northern summer and south during the northern winter. An area which would lie between a wet and dry area would therefore experience a rainy season and a dry season every year. Areas just on the other side of the band would experience opposite seasons.
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