Sentences with phrase «early monsoon rains»
When Chorabari Lake in mountainous northern India drained suddenly during early monsoon rains last year, by contrast, decades worth of meltwater was unleashed, contributing to a catastrophe.
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Most wildfires here are started by lightning early in the monsoon season, before the rains come to put them out, like the Nuttall fire in 2004, which began on a shoulder of the Pinalenos and catapulted up the mountain, eventually devouring 29,000 acres.
In the late summer I'm loooking for signs that our monsoon rains will arrive, in the fall and spring I look for freezing temps that will affect my garden, in the winter I'm seeing if I need to bring in wood for the stove, and in early summer, I'm keeping an eye on high temperatures and winds that will dry out my trees and garden quickly.
With regard to models, even the early ones reproduce the basic pattern of monsoon changes, but there has been continuing difficulty in getting the rain band to move far enough North.