Located in the temperate monsoon zone, Japan is also strongly influenced by seasonal weather patterns. |
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The eastern Himalayan region is a high-rainfall zone that yields excessive water in basins during the monsoon. |
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This all seems so much more comforting on a grey monsoon day with the wind storming outside and the Mumbai streets in flood. |
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The rain teemed down as the summer monsoon dragged on and the locals claimed they hadn't seen the like for years. |
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The list of crops affected by the delayed monsoon is long, and oilseeds, coarse cereals and pulses top it. |
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The elusive jumbo prawns, barbecued chicken and pork spare ribs are monsoon specials. |
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The storm, with deluges of rain, sweeps over the mountain and the monsoon reigns over the low lands of Malabar. |
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However, the impact that global warming may have on the monsoon is not yet fully understood. |
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Heavy rains brought by the monsoon front are an important water source for the nation. |
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With the push of the northeast monsoon, their dhows brought ironware, glassware, textiles, and took home rhino horn, ivory and slaves. |
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He and Hayden were poking around a monsoon drain on Number Thirteen, searching for Hayden's errant drive. |
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Precipitation is highest in summer due to a continental monsoon, especially in middle to eastern parts of the desert regions in China. |
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The Sangameshwar temple is at the confluence of rivers Alaknanda, Varuna and Shastri and gets submerged during monsoon. |
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This great indraft of moist air from the equatorial North Atlantic is like the warm-season half of a monsoon. |
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In a way, I am glad the monsoon has finally begun after all the false starts caused by atmospheric depressions in the Arabian Sea end of May. |
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A monsoon climate of alternating wet and dry seasons characterizes the weather. |
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This mingling of polluted and clean air is particularly evident from January to April of each year during the winter monsoon. |
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The monsoon rains in the region have been the heaviest for almost a century and, yesterday, western India was drenched again. |
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Outside, it is a typical monsoon morning sky alternating between brilliant sunburst and darkening clouds. |
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Due to failure of monsoon and negligible rain in catchment areas inflow had been considerably less than the last year figures. |
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As my train arrived, the monsoon abruptly stopped, the sun came out, leaving me gently steaming on platform five at Reading. |
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During the monsoon season the villagers divert their occupation to fishing and agriculture. |
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The North-east monsoon showers have heralded the coming of the season of chilly nights, starry skies and misty mornings in the city. |
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October to April brings the more humid north-west monsoon, and November to February often sees monsoon rain. |
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The current north-east monsoon has already begun its exit moving westward over the Arabian Sea causing rain over the coastal part of the State. |
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The wetter south-west season runs from May-November and the north-east monsoon from December-April. |
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During heavy monsoon downpours, the bunds naturally breached causing silt formation in tanks. |
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Since Friday weather in many parts of the Nilgiris has become nippy on account of the South-West monsoon. |
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The southwest monsoon has been very weak in the first month of this season. |
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The biggest challenge before the district health authorities is to check the breakout of water-borne diseases during the monsoon. |
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The near failure of the monsoon has affected agricultural operations in 11 States. |
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They consider the monsoon a season of separation from the loved one, of nostalgia and nameless longing. |
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The cries of India are given to seas and winds, to be blown about, in every breaking up of the monsoon, over a remote and unhearing ocean. |
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The land is mostly uncultivated and, the driver tells them, when the monsoon passes, the area is a desert. |
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We spent our last afternoon in a movie theater, dodging a monsoon that had moved in. |
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Parliament was adjourned sine die on a sombre note on Monday, four days ahead of the scheduled end of the monsoon session. |
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Appropriate food as it was the day that the monsoon finally arrived in Delhi and you know how hungry rainy weather makes you. |
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The deciduous forest patch was at its best after the monsoon showers, the grass a verdant green. |
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So it's been a long summer, a long hot summer, and once the hot season ends then the monsoon is just now come. |
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The monsoon showers are here again to swathe the State in a watery blanket. |
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His voice reminds you of the long awaited monsoon showers caressing the parched earth. |
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India's dramatic seasons of drought and monsoon can destroy everything a person owns. |
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The monsoon trough is a broad area of low atmospheric pressure running east-west through the tropics in the summer months. |
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This creates winds that generally blow from the southwest during the summer monsoon and from the northeast from October to April. |
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However, the monsoon is no season to lounge on the cosy sands beside the lapping waves. |
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April through mid-November is the dry season, while December through March is the monsoon. |
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May to September brings the cooler and drier south-east monsoon, with strong winds and high seas in July and August. |
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Many of them had seen tents go to other villages and thought that this would be the best thing to see them through the summer and the monsoon. |
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The south-west monsoon from May to October brings heavy rain and heavy seas and can restrict diving. |
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In the record year of 1923-24 the monsoon trough stayed well north, and the season was notable for its lack of cyclone activity. |
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Sometimes decaying tropical cyclones or the monsoon trough move well south into the central regions, bringing widespread rain and thunderstorms. |
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During the late monsoon season, tropical cyclones sweep in from the Bay of Bengal, often with disastrous consequences. |
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The brown cloud which hangs over Asia was caused by pollution and will affect the monsoon rains in Asia. |
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Near one of their bore-wells, there was a deep trench in which run-off flowed during the monsoon. |
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The monsoon has played a big role in reducing the passage time to the country. |
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The monsoon season begins in summer when northeast trade winds reverse direction and carry water-saturated air inland. |
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Whether in the torrid months of summer, the pouring rains of the monsoon season, or the cold winters of the North, it's always tea time in India. |
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It is good that the BMP has started work on removing silt from storm water drains before the onset of monsoon. |
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When monsoon floods approached their settlements, they told us, drums were beaten inside the caves, and the people could hear it. |
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As you drive west toward the coast, seeps and springs in the ravines form small braided waterfalls, full of their own monsoon song. |
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In this tropical climate, there is a rainy, monsoon season from May to October. |
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The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless. |
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For the next couple of months tuck away the scanty summer wear and the thin knit winter wear to make room for the monsoon gear. |
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This is an open invitation to flooding once the monsoon arrives and if the Tawi does overflow it will be a disaster. |
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Those of us who are looking for an end to the days of power cuts and load-shedding may be anxious at the games the monsoon is playing. |
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In July and August of that year, the monsoon waters rose in the Narmada and submerged villages. |
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It looks like just as monsoon clouds gather, the war clouds are dispersing. |
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The drought-like situation prevails in the district due to an acute shortage of water and extended power cuts triggered by delays in the monsoon. |
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It might rain cats and dogs during the few monsoon days of the city, but water supply during summer months is still a suspect issue. |
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Now, the tears were coming out as fast as the fat monsoon raindrops outside were coming down. |
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In the upper atmosphere during this season, westerlies dominate in the upper troposphere over most of the monsoon region. |
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Frater surely pays his respects to the whimsical monsoon gods through his pilgrimage covering the length and breadth of the country. |
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When mist fills the Himalayan valleys and heavy monsoon rain sweeps across the hills, it is natural for the wild creatures to seek shelter. |
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The monsoon, which has been eluding Punjab so far and has affected kharif crops, has brought the afforestation drive in the state to a halt. |
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Unless the north-west monsoon fails, that water supply is going to remain abundant and reliable. |
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He said the delay in monsoon had adversely affected all kharif crops, particularly bajra. |
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The equable climate, natural abundance of forest with plenty of herbs and medicinal plants and cool monsoon are best suited for rejuvenation. |
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The south-westerly monsoon winds bring copious amounts of rain from June onwards. |
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These dams built on the rivers will be able to hold the entire amount of water during a weak monsoon. |
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More than a century ago, to give his womenfolk an illusory monsoon during the hottest months, a maharana created the Maids of Honour garden. |
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He is a shadow of the player who scored that wonderfully dexterous try in the monsoon against Argentina 15 months ago. |
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On July 26, lakhs of Mumbaikars went to work, to school and college as they would on any normal monsoon day. |
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The force of a monsoon is driven by the continental land mass being hotter than the surrounding oceans. |
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It has a typical vertical climate zone affected by South Asia plateau monsoon climate, with distinctive dry and humid seasons and little temperature change, and it is like spring all the year round. |
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With a good monsoon, the kharif crop was buoyant and rabi is also expected to do well, going by the meteorological department's forecast of a prolonged winter. |
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The sowing for the kharif season is slowly but steadily picking up in this agriculturally intensive district, thanks to the reasonably good south west monsoon so far. |
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Of course, we had a good monsoon, resulting in a good kharif output. |
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No sky alight with revelation crowns this picture, only a small triangle congested greeny-yellow by the monsoon, crammed against the top of the frame by the massif. |
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All sorts of weather systems can have an impact, dependent on the location, such as mid-latitude cyclones, subtropical anticyclones, monsoon systems, and tropical cyclones. |
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I've always considered a monsoon storm a big event, but the point was driven home one night after a subtropical rumbler dropped an inch of rain in a little over half an hour. |
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But there is no mention of such a phenomenon in the EIA reports of the projects on the Teesta, which is sustained by glacial melt, snowmelt run-off and monsoon rainfall. |
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This may sometimes be associated with a tropical cyclone or a monsoon low. |
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All focus at present is on water, may it be due to termination of water accords or failure of monsoon or scattered, scanty rain, scarce power to operate tubewells. |
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An unexpected monsoon shower delayed the proceedings, but everything started off with a bang after couples and groups began drifting in as the sky cleared. |
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The monsoon season that year saw six tiger attacks, despite the normal rarity of such incidents in that season. |
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By Sunday, the shifting winds of a monsoon storm drove the flames toward the town. |
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The Bangkok metro continued to operate even as a foot of water lapped at the entrances during the 2011 monsoon. |
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When a monsoon approached, waiters dropped plastic drapes to keep the deck from flooding, the aide said. |
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When there were less built-up areas and the storm water channels were free of blockages and more tanks to collect rainwater, the monsoon barely made any difference. |
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The large area involved and the grand scale of the weather within monsoon climates suggest that monsoons play a significant role in the management of the global climate. |
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The northeast monsoon, which brings us most of our water, has set in. |
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The Himalayan Range is the major cause of the summer monsoon rains. |
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The tree planting spree has started and monsoon rainfall will sustain it. |
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It was the summer before her 9th grade year, months that dwelled in limbo between gradually evaporating innocence and a monsoon of unfathomed tears. |
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However, the sluggish progress of the monsoon and the rising inflation rate as a result of higher crude oil prices has stemmed the possibility of a runaway rally. |
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The south-east monsoon cuts visibility from June to August, but the main rains come with the north-west monsoon from December to March, when heavy seas can restrict diving. |
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Weather conditions during January have varied between Arctic and monsoon but the course has stood up well and all competitions are on schedule with no backlog. |
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It is another spectacle of the south-west monsoon that I look forward to. |
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From December-April the north-east monsoon is generally dry. |
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And the north-east monsoon which set in on October 12, is here to stay. |
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Blown in on the north-west monsoon without aid of any chart or astronomical observation, a thousand mariners, tide-driven, converge on the coral reefs. |
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The key parameters of monsoon formation are land and sea temperatures, wind direction and conditions, the presence of water vapour, and finally topography and orography. |
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In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds. |
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To attract holidayers to the State during the Southwest monsoon, brochures detailing the various facets of the monsoon have been brought as in previous years. |
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The pitter-patter of the monsoon might be a long wait ahead, but with a number of brightly painted umbrellas crowding its walls, this is a downpour of a different kind. |
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The canal network depends upon the availability of river water ponded in three hydro-electric projects ever at the mercy of monsoon and snow-melt. |
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They dug ponds and built earthen dams called johads to trap monsoon rains. |
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Rituals associated with ploughing and planting of rice during monsoon and then again later at the end of monsoon were occasions to propitiate the gods for a bountiful harvest. |
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Tribes of hoodlum punkers rumble easy clean on vintage American Harleys in monsoon rushes of postindustrial airbrushed green and blue and orange manes. |
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Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth embankments swamping large areas of the district within half an hour. |
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When Jack is lost at sea during a monsoon, Nim sends an email SOS to her favourite writer, Alex Rover. |
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Guangzhou has a lengthy monsoon season, spanning from April through September. |
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Progress was slow, as movement was made difficult by monsoon rains and IV Corps was short of supplies. |
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The tropical rain belt causes additional rainfall during the monsoon season. |
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Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly. |
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When the monsoon winds change, cyclones sometimes strike the shores of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. |
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The effects of the rain conjure up the romantic yearning of the monsoon season, a theme that dominates Indic poetry. |
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The majority of Southeast Asia has a wet and dry season caused by seasonal shift in winds or monsoon. |
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A warm and humid monsoon season lasts from June to October and supplies most of the country's rainfall. |
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The sauce range includes spicy Bombay ketchup, Himalayan hot garlic, Madrasi hot mint, spicy monsoon mango and spicy samosa sauce. |
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If the Japanese didn't get you, the insects or the monsoon would, as I got malaria and sand fly fever, but I survived. |
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In Singapore haze is an annual problem during drier summer months, when westerly monsoon winds blow smoke from land-clearing on Sumatra. |
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There is enough clouding over Andaman Sea, giving strong signals for a good monsoon. |
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Aromatic, masala chai with crispy-fried pakoras are the quintessential monsoon snack. |
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Continental and superior air masses are dry while maritime and monsoon air masses are moist. |
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Elongated areas of low pressure form at the monsoon trough or intertropical convergence zone as part of the Hadley cell circulation. |
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Moderately vigorous monsoon depressions form in the Bay of Bengal and make landfall from June to September. |
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Southern parts are mostly hot in summers and receive rain during monsoon periods. |
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The climate of this vast region varies considerably from area to area from tropical monsoon in the south to temperate in the north. |
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When this occurs over the tropics in concert with the Intertropical Convergence Zone, it is known as a monsoon trough. |
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Persistent monsoon winds mean many Socotran insects have evolved relatively small wings, to stop them being blown out to sea. |
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Had these drains not been destroyed, Delhi would not have been facing frequent urban flooding and road cave-ins during monsoon. |
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Heavy rains are brought to Sri Lanka by the monsoon season that lasts from May to November. |
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Oman has become the favourite holiday destination especially for holidaymakers who aspire to experience the the monsoon season in the Gulf state. |
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The control room of PDMA will remain in contact with all the districts during monsoon season. |
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He also feared the current spell could be part of monsoon season and the concerned departments were needed to take measures in this regard. |
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Landslides in mountainous areas and flooding in the southern plains are common during the monsoon season. |
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The campaign is named 'Be Aware for Safety and Complete car care' and will run until the end of monsoon season. |
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Poor rains since the start of the June-September monsoon season had raised concerns of the first drought in five years. |
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The fleet timed its travel across the Arabian Sea to take advantage of the predictable monsoon winds. |
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When located within a monsoon region, this zone of low pressure and wind convergence is also known as the monsoon trough. |
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The Philippines is visited by at least 20 weather disturbances every year, ranging from monsoon rains to tropical depressions to typhoons. |
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So, when Jack is lost at sea during a monsoon, Nim sends an SOS email to her favourite writer, Alex Rover. |
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Espinosa was apparently trying to reach the Westerlies, but did not find them, probably because of the summer monsoon. |
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Together with the sub-tropical monsoon climate, the upland farming makes Fujian s farmland highly susceptive to soil erosion. |
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Rainfall pattern is influenced by monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. |
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The southwest monsoon season from July to September brings strong winds and high seas. |
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By this time, Cabral had already crossed the Indian Ocean, and the change in the monsoon winds prevented Dias from undertaking his own crossing. |
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Odonates were found to be absent at St II while their presence was recorded at rest of the stations in the monsoon period. |
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Some areas have a summer humid tropical monsoon climate, in particular the Dhofar and Al Mahrah areas of Oman and Yemen. |
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There is a monsoon season with frequent flooding due to heavy rainfall, and a dry season with significantly less rainfall or none at all. |
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While temperature does not vary greatly throughout the year, there is a wetter monsoon season from November to January. |
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The return journey was set during the late summer and early autumn, because favorable monsoon winds would be present during this period. |
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There, the fleet would wait for the favorable northeast monsoon of winter before leaving the Fujian coast. |
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More prayers and sacrifices were conducted for Tianfei by the crew during the wait for the northeast monsoon. |
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Northern Maluku has its wet monsoon from December to March in line with the rest of Indonesia. |
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The armada would then just sail east, and let the monsoon carry them headlong across the Indian Ocean until India. |
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The critical determinant of the timing was the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean. |
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During the monsoon from August to November, Fourteenth Army pursued the Japanese to the Chindwin River. |
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A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind which lasts for several months, ushering in a region's rainy season. |
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This type of climate results from the monsoon winds which change direction according to the seasons. |
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Eager to set sail for home, he ignored the local knowledge of monsoon wind patterns that were still blowing onshore. |
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Savanna climates and areas with monsoon regimes have wet summers and dry winters. |
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The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes. |
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Most gesneriads have their home in warm monsoon forests around the world and need to be grown indoors. |
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The humid or monsoon subtropical climate is often located on the western side of the subtropical high. |
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The climate of the region is dominated by the seasonal monsoon rains, which allowed effective campaigning for only just over half of each year. |
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Like the Indonesian peoples above, the western sailors used the monsoon to cross the ocean. |
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Albeit the monsoon must have been common knowledge in the Indian Ocean for centuries. |
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Agriculture Ministry is, therefore, closely monitoring the progress of monsoon, especially over dryland areas. |
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The island was a stopping point during monsoon season for ship repair. |
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Much of Yemen has a tropical monsoon rain influenced mountain climate. |
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Party leaders discussed various options, including the ordinance route, special session of Parliament and preponing the monsoon session, to take up the key legislation. |
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The ongoing monsoon season is making things more difficult, as most of the unmetalled roads have developed ditches and pits causing greater inconvenience in commuting. |
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During the winter monsoon, however, currents in the north are reversed. |
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They grew tepary beans on fields made of flash flood debris, irrigated by winter rains and summer monsoon runoff and not much else, ten inches or so of precipitation annually. |
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The Japanese did not renew their offensive after the monsoon ended. |
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Cabral, feeling there's nothing to be achieved here and worried about missing the monsoon winds to India, decides to break off the negotiations and sail on. |
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The south and the eastern tip of the east have a tropical monsoon climate. |
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Heating of the earth near the equator leads to large amounts of upward motion and convection along the monsoon trough or intertropical convergence zone. |
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Given the imminent monsoon reversal, that was a scarce commodity. |
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The Roman historian Strabo mentions a vast increase in trade following the Roman annexation of Egypt, indicating that monsoon was known and manipulated for trade in his time. |
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On the afternoon of 2 May 1945 the monsoon rains began in full force. |
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Slim feared that the Japanese would defend Rangoon to the last man through the monsoon, which would put Fourteenth Army in a disastrous supply situation. |
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Though the Allied force had advanced successfully into central Burma, it was vital to capture the port of Rangoon before the monsoon to avoid a logistics crisis. |
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After capturing the railway tunnels, XV Corps halted during the monsoon. |
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In the summer, monsoon winds already emptied of their moisture flow along the Intertropical Convergence Zone before they swerve north over the Wahiba Sands. |
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On the islands of Komodo and Rinca, the boar mostly inhabits savanna or open monsoon forests, avoiding heavily forested areas unless pursued by humans. |
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Afterwards, the fleet sailed down the Chinese coast, towards the mouth of the Min River, where they awaited the northeast monsoon at Taiping anchorage in the Changle district. |
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Fuxin is in the intergradational zone between the Inner Mongolian Plateau and the Liaohe River Plain, and it has a northern temperate continental monsoon climate. |
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This was a blow to British plans as it endangered the prospects of reaching Yangon before the onset of the monsoon, expected at the beginning of May. |
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Consequently, they lose their moisture before reaching Djibouti and Somalia, with the result that most of the Horn receives little rainfall during the monsoon season. |
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Central and southern Maluku Islands experience the dry monsoon between October to March and the wet monsoon from May to August, which is the reverse of the rest of Indonesia. |
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Except in high elevations, most areas possess a warm humid climate throughout the year, with some seasonal variation associated with the northeast monsoon season. |
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The monsoon had failed at the beginning but picked up very well later, so the rabi crop would be just fine and the wars they mentioned had taken place a year and a half ago. |
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Among the tropical oceans, the western Indian Ocean hosts one of the largest concentration of phytoplankton blooms in summer, due to the strong monsoon winds. |
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There is a dry sauna, a salt steamroom, a rasul mud room, an ice fountain, monsoon and fragrant mist showers as well as gently heated day couches. |
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The flow out of the subtropical highs and the summer monsoon creates a southerly flow from the tropics that brings warm and moist air to the lower east sides of continents. |
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Prior to the onset of monsoon the Park administration undertakes the annual maintenance of mounts for trees on which heronries are situated, gathering soil from close-by. |
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But with the winter monsoon yet to set in, it was a harrowing journey. |
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The climate north of the equator is affected by a monsoon climate. |
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Burma Corps managed to make it most of the way to Imphal, in Manipur in India just before the monsoon broke in May 1942, having lost most of their equipment and transport. |
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