Sentences with phrase «heaviest monsoon rains»

The heaviest monsoon rains in India for several years killed around 500 people last week.

Heavy monsoon rains have caused flooding in northern India that has already affected 3 million people, destroying homes, farmlands and holy sites in the process.

If crops fail due to particularly heavy monsoon rains, the Indian government wants to be prepared to feed its people.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's perfect storm was followed on its heels by a second wave of weather that dropped heavy monsoon rains over the Punjab watershed from Aug. 2 to 9, Khan said.

Mudslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed scores of people in the island nation.

The heavy monsoon rain of the previous day has eased.

The resort usually closes between November and February because of the heavy monsoon rains that fall here, and you can not dive here at that time.

In 2015, unusually heavy monsoon rains and a tropical cyclone led to the worst flooding and landslides Myanmar has experienced in recent decades.

Alertnet: Muhammad Mushtaq moved his family and several neighbours to safety last September when their homes in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani - administered Kashmir, were flooded by an overflowing stream during heavy monsoon rains.

Heavy monsoon rains exceeded 10 inches in some locations over the period July 27 - 30.

In Bangladesh, heavy monsoon rains have killed 126.

Not exact matches

Now the region is experiencing unusually heavy rains as the monsoon has finally arrived — also an expected impact of El Niño.

Summer in southwestern China is the monsoon season, with heavy rain at unpredictable times throughout the day.

He handed off to Jordan Taylor at the one - hour mark, but 30 minutes later heavy rain pelted the circuit and caused numerous cars to slide off track in the monsoon.

Monsoons bring heavy rains and humidity from December through March with the dry season being from June until September.

On the Andaman or west coast, where Phuket, the Similan Islands, and the Phi Phi Islands lie, the southwest monsoon brings heavy storms from April to October, while on the Gulf of Thailand or east coast, where KohSamui, KohPhangan, and Koh Tao lie, the most rain falls between September and December.

Habagat is the Filipino name for the warm and wet southwest monsoon wind that brings thunderstorms and heavy rains to Boracay between June and October.

The region is generally unaffected by the monsoon seasons which affect other places in this part of South East Asia, although sporadic heavy rains can come down during the rainy season from December to March.

Opening night brought in a slight challenge to the show, namely the weather was monsoon - like with heavy rains and high winds.

«There have also been severe monsoon floods across South Asia, abnormally heavy rains in northern Europe, China, Sudan, Mozambique and Uruguay, extreme heatwaves in southeastern Europe and Russia, and unusual snowfall in South Africa and South America this year, the WMO said.»

Below you can read an excerpt from Masters» latest post, in which he cites a study that I wrote about in 2006 that detected a long - term shift in the monsoon toward more rain coming in heavy downpours.

Because the model only describes the rainy season and does not capture the annual monsoon cycle, abrupt transitions in the bistable regime can only be interpreted intraseasonally, e.g., a month of heavy rain followed by a month of extraordinarily weak precipitation.

This was a fore - runner to the exceptionally heavy rains in Queensland in December 2010, and January 2011 where the southern monsoon rains kicked in with the presence of record high SSTs.

In this situation, heavy rains from monsoons fall over India and Indonesia while the eastern tropical Pacific remains dry.

Is it monsoon ready, or would it blow over in heavy rain or a storm?