He was instructed only to survey and explore the surrounding mountain country, then virtually unknown, and to investigate the monsoon climate.

Lowlands in the west and south of the state are located in the tropical monsoon climate.

It has a continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons.

However, large freezes only occur in the area about every 1015 years, and the area shows some characteristics of a tropical monsoon climate.

Topography of the park has an average elevation of experiences tropical monsoon climate with an annual temperature of.

Her research led to the discovery of a basic feature of the sub-seasonal variation in the monsoon cloud bands.

Possibly more people may see it than any previous eclipse in recorded history, although monsoon clouds and storms may blot out the view in many places.

Immense dark-blue monsoon clouds release silver torrents of rain.

What they saw was not encouraging, with monsoon clouds hovering over a technically demanding ridge and snow softened by a warm wind.

He confirmed that monsoon rain had flooded some rooms.

That suspiciously cheap package delivers you to a boarded-up resort where the umbrella in your daiquiri can't protect you from the monsoon rain.

Monsoon rain lashes down for 15 minutes; more than 6,500 gallons of water are collected.

Through sheets of monsoon rain, trucks could be seen parked outside what appeared to be an administration block, but there was no sign of activity.

Does 2012 promise a summer of monsoon rain?

We say: it's monsoon season, so be prepared for sunshine and showers.

In the monsoon season the no-shows are more numerous.

He arrives in monsoon season hoping to catch a newborn calf on camera.

Tuna are known to time their migration to the continental shelf for spawning with the beginning of the monsoon season.

Up to 36ft of rain falls here each monsoon season.

When, eventually, the monsoon storm clouds arrived, these spores may then have been swept up on warm updraughts into the clouds and absorbed into raindrops before falling as blood-red rain.

The prices are not as frightening as you might think, with the best deals available in the early summer, when guests risk the occasional monsoon storm.

The previous typhoon brought the trough more northward, hence the unusually high latitude for a monsoon storm.

During the inspection the monsoon storm breaks.

Due to monsoon storms heavy rains would fall, and washes and street runoff emptied into the river.

As the humid monsoon wind makes landfall it rises up into towering clouds and pours with rain.

Having seen how the monsoon winds affect the flora and fauna, tonight's fascinating final episode focuses on the human side of things.

Such voyages were no small undertaking because the monsoon winds were cyclical.

Westerly monsoon winds lie in its equatorward portion while easterly trade winds exist poleward of the trough.

During the wet season, humid, prevailing monsoon winds blow in from the west and lose their moisture upon hitting the region's mountains.