Temperature Summer Winter . The rainy season . Winter is the best time of the year at Kanha. The nights are crisp and in December the meadows get frost which sometimes is severe enough to kill sal seedlings on the periphery of groves or in the openings. A low blanket of fog often lies over the clearings, especially along the nalas in the early mornings.
Strong winds are virtually absent, and even on the higher plateaus there is only a mild breeze.
Since the monsoon has only recently retreated, the vegetation is green and rank in the forest. But in the meadows the grasses which have flowered and seeded, turn yellow from the severe frost. By mid-January, some of the deciduous trees have shed their leaves. But late January-February is spring time suddenly, and with the nights no longer so cold, semal trees bloom in their scarlet best. Many of the birds begin to breed.