India’s parliament was operational on a Sunday for the first time ever, because the pandemic delayed and shortened the monsoon session.
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So when the summer monsoon rains arrived nearly 16 days later than usual, farmers were able to delay planting their rice and other crops until closer to the time of the monsoon, Acharya says.
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In just one example, Robertson and colleagues recently developed detailed subseasonal forecasts of monsoon rains over northern India.
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Ethiopian officials have explained that the dam’s gates are not closed, and that the water pool is caused by an inflow of flood after heavy monsoon rains.
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Monsoon rains sparked widespread flooding that submerged the camp in water.
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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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These vessels make only one voyage in the year, and always move with the monsoon.
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Falstaff is alone in the literature of the world; but if ever there came a later Falstaff, Monsoon was the man.
A system of winds that influences the climate of a large area and that reverses direction with the seasons. Monsoons are caused primarily by the much greater annual variation in temperature over large areas of land than over large areas of adjacent ocean water. This variation causes an excess of atmospheric pressure over the continents in the winter, and a deficit in the summer. The disparity causes strong winds to blow between the ocean and the land, bringing heavy seasonal rainfall.
In southern Asia, a wind that is part of such a system and that blows from the southwest in the summer and usually brings heavy rains.