monsoons

• “They lost millions of dollars worth of sets in monsoons and it never managed to gain that back.”

  Eric’s Top 10 Flops Turned Classics » Scene-Stealers

• “Our rainy season--- the "monsoons"--- occur in July and August, when New Mexico gets half its yearly rain.”

  Waiting for the Rain

• “Actually the monsoons are the region's primary source of water; the glaciers, while providing only a small portion of the total water supply, are a key source during the dry season.”

  Bill Chameides: IPCC Slips on Himalayan Ice

• “Unlike China, 60% of the crop is dependent on the monsoons, which is why the impact of a drought is much greater on India.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Questions and Answers: M.S. Swaminathan

• “However, for the masses of Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire already ravaged by civil war, genocide, and cholera, the onset of the monsoons is a new nightmare come true.”

  The Tragedy of Rwanda

• “To the southward, about Benjarmasing, the monsoons are the same as in the”

  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

• “In this country the winds, which are called monsoons, blow constantly, or altering only a few points, for six months from the south, and other six months from the north.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “They may thus in our own country be termed monsoons without very regular periods.”

  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

• “The Aryans were very successful in cultivating the land along the banks of the Ganges River Valley, aided by winds known as monsoons that brought rain from the Indian Ocean.”

  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

• “But those seasonal winds, known as monsoons, brought about 20 percent less rainfall each year to India and southeastern China in the 1850s than they did in the early 1700s, says Kazuyuki Saito, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.”

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