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Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.

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Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.

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The rains themselves.

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Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.

It is to be noted that the climate of the islands of the Pacific becomes more and more healthy the farther they are from the monsoon region.

The wet season, lasting during the prevalence of the south-west monsoon, from April to December, is clearly defined on the Pacific slope.

Tibet is affected by the south-west monsoon, just as the Pamirs are affected, but in varying degrees according to geographical position.

All the western region is but slightly affected by the monsoon.

The northwest monsoon, beginning in October and lasting till March, brings the principal rainy season in the archipelago.

In the two years 1899 and 1900 the monsoon was very weak, the result being a severe famine which caused great mortality among the Bhil population.

At this period an exact knowledge of the depths of the ocean off after the beginning of the south-west monsoon to a minimum assumed an unlooked-for practical importance from the daring in August, the total range being 92 in.

The south-west monsoon does not generally extend, in its character of a south-west wind, over the land.

This appears to be about the northern limit reached by the south-west monsoon, which from June to September brings a fairly abundant rainfall to the Yemen highlands, though the Tehama remains almost entirely rainless.

Within the southern monsoon region there is a gradual transition to the northwest monsoon of New Guinea in low latitudes, and in higher latitudes to the north-east wind of the Queensland coast.

India thus becomes the type of a tropical monsoon climate.

In Annam the rainy season begins during September and lasts for three or four months, corresponding with the northeast monsoon and also with a period of typhoons.

The cool season begins with the commencement of the north-east monsoon in the China Sea in November.

Owing to its tropical situation and its almost entire dependence upon the monsoon rains, India is more liable than any other country in the world to crop failures, which upon occasion deepen into famine.

The north-east monsoon, which lasts from October till April, is exceedingly violent for three months after its commencement.

Here, too, the prevailing rainfall is brought by the north-west monsoon, but in this belt its prevalence is not so pronounced, Padang getting 94 in.

Desert conditions also arise from local causes, as in the case of the Indian desert situated in a region inaccessible to either of the two main branches of the south-west monsoon.

In the monsoon the Cochin backwaters are broad navigable channels and lakes; in the hot weather they contract into shallows in many places not 2 ft.

He holds the opinion that the tea-plant is indigenous, not to Assam only, but to the whole monsoon region of eastern Asia, where he found it growing wild as far north as the islands of southern Japan.

In the deltas of southern India irrigation is only practised during the monsoon season.

The Godaveri, Kistna and Kaveri all take their rise on the Western Ghats, a region where the rainfall is never known to fail in the monsoon season.

For this monsoon irrigation there is always abundance of water, and so long as the canals and sluices are kept in repair, there is little trouble in distributing it over the fields.

On its eastern margin, however, in the neighbourhood of the Aravalli hills, and again in the northern Punjab, rain is more frequent, occurring both in the south-west monsoon and also at the opposite season in the cold weather.

The country to the east of the gap receives the rainfall of the south-west monsoon; and during the north-east monsoon ships passing Beypur meet with a stronger wind from the land than is felt elsewhere on the Malabar coast.

In Lower Burma the western face of the Arakan Yoma hills, like that of the Western Ghats in India, is exposed to the full force of the south-western monsoon, and receives a very heavy rainfall.

For the origin of the monsoon currents and their distribution see Monsoon.

In September the force of the monsoon begins rapidly to decline, and after about the middle of the month it ceases to carry rain to the greater part of north-western India.

This zone falls within the regime of the summer monsoon rains, while those districts adjoining the coast zone enjoy also winter rains.

The curve shows two rises, one at the beginning of winter, and the other at the commencement of the monsoon, and at both these times the people are driven indoors.

This excessive rainfall is caused by the fact that Cherrapunji stands on the edge of the plateau overlooking the plains of Bengal, where it catches the full force of the monsoon as it rises from the sea.

The rains of the south-east monsoon reach Central India as a rule about the 12th of July, and last until the end of September.

The south-west monsoon generally sets in about the first week in June, and pours down volumes of rain along the coast.

It is only when the monsoon is in considerable force that Merwara gets a plentiful supply from it.

The north-eastern monsoon sweeps up the valley of the Ganges from the Bay of Bengal and waters the northern part of Rajputana, but hardly penetrates farther west than the longitude of Ajmere.

A long-standing sequence of disastrous famines in India led to one of the first investigations of just how the monsoon was generated.

However it is also during the monsoon that Goa is probably at its most beautiful, wit h greenery sprouting all around.

Monsoon clouds are often likened to Krishna, finally arriving to quench the thirst of his lovers.

Bless Monsoon for providing for the stage where the casual onlooker still has to wonder for a second if you have a flabby midriff.

Monsoon on Line monsoon on Line Monsoon information, particularly on predicting monsoons.

Therefore in August 1997, we started our first thematic web site concerned with the prediction of the Asian summer monsoon.

The climate varies from tropical monsoon in the south to temperate in the north.

During this season the rivers, which are roaring torrents throughout the monsoon, are almost all lost in the dry, absorbent plains.

The south-west monsoon currents usually set in during the first fortnight of June on the Bombay and Bengal coasts, and give more The or less general rain in every part of India during the next three months.

The Bombay monsoon, after surmounting the Ghats, blows across the peninsula as a west and sometimes in places a north-west wind; but it leaves with very little rain a strip 100 to 200 m.

Similarly the Bengal monsoon passes by the Coromandel coast and the Carnatic with an occasional shower, taking a larger volume to Masulipatam and Orissa, and abundant rain to Bengal, Assam and Cachar.

The approach of the south-west monsoon precluded the immediate renewal of the attempt; but hostilities were resumed, and Achin fell in January 1874.

There were indications that monsoon influences extended as far north at least as the Great Pamir, and a definite analogy was established between the record of barometric pressure on the Pamirs and that of the outer ranges of the Himalaya.

From May to August, the period of the south-east monsoon, the climate of Banka is dry and hot; but the mean annual rainfall reaches 120 in.

The wet, cool season proper is from November to February, accompanying the north-west monsoon.

The bamboos are a feature of tropical forest vegetation, especially in the monsoon region.