Sentences with phrase «monsoon rains»

The potential risks are enormous: disrupting the food chain, damaging the ozone layer, the loss of monsoon rains in Asia — the list goes on.

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

A Christian charity is responding to the mass displacement of 400,000 people in India left homeless by monsoon rains that have killed 12 people.

In 2006, an attempt was made to forecast summer monsoon rains for the Sahel in Africa.

For the Ganges and Brahmaputra this contribution is estimated to be significantly less than for the Indus to the west, with summer monsoon rains dominating flows from central and easterly areas, whereas melt water remains a significant contributor to downstream flow of westerly basins, which receive most precipitation during winter.

The bathroom is also fitted with a deluxe overhead hot / cold monsoon rain shower on a timber deck plus and extra hand shower, dual vanity crafted out of natural stone and a toilet.

Flooding from monsoon rains killed thousands of people along the river basin.

The Lake Chad drainage basin depends on monsoon rains to replenish its water, and this rainfall has dropped dramatically since the early 1960s.

Please don't take any weather forecast as certain, Thailand's weather is unpredictable — it could be boiling hot one minute then pouring down with monsoon rain...

The western state of Gujarat and other parts of India are waiting for the annual monsoon rains to cool down the triple - digit temperatures.

After studying trends of monsoon rains over 60 years, the researchers have warned of extreme weather conditions in future.

Monsoon rains fall in June and October and can bring thunderstorms and flooding depending upon their severity.

I can see that even during monsoon rain, the beauty of Palawan remains evident.

Monsoon rains arriving later, and ending sooner than usual, is disrupting crop production and farm productivity, which, in Bhutan, mostly means rice.

Christian relief agency Tearfund is sending emergency aid to several counties in the region following the worst monsoon rains in 50 years.

Those from the first millennium B.C. show that the god of weather, Indra, was asked for good monsoon rains and a bountiful harvest.

The samples revealed long - held secrets of how desert - friendly species replaced tropical plants and animals as monsoon rains retreated farther south into the continent.

In recent times, volcanic fallout has been known to interfere with an equatorial belt of air called the Intertropical Convergence Zone that seasonally shifts up and down around the world, bringing monsoon rains either north or south depending on the time of year.

«You must have rain in the Ethiopian highlands to irrigate the Nile valley, so if monsoon rains are disrupted, the usual floods would have been lost,» says Francis Ludlow at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, the team's climate historian.

These include a signature adjustable «SmartBed» with luxury bedding, rejuvenating monsoon rain showers, relaxing mood lighting and a «techno wall» with smart TVs, multi power points and easy connectivity.

The company's product, while uniquely suited to regions like India that have high solar exposure and seasonal monsoon rains, could be put to work for a number of different applications, ranging from carports to bus and train stops to outdoor seating for businesses.

Participating researchers said, in the course of the study, they had noticed «a strengthening trend of winter rainfall (between 1964 - 2006) and summer rainfall (between 1938 - 2006) and weakening monsoon rain (1960 onwards).

Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

Monsoons shift away from normal watersheds Pakistan's monsoon rains normally emanate from moisture swept in over India from the Bay of Bengal.

All this causes more water to evaporate into the atmosphere, intensifying monsoon rains and cyclones.

The warmer climate overall, the researchers say, could have warmed the North Atlantic sea, drawing wet monsoon rains up from lower latitudes.

ETNA ERUPTS This Italian volcano (shown here in 2013) erupted in 44 B.C., likely reducing monsoon rains that fed into the Nile River and ultimately fueling civic unrest in Ptolemaic Egypt.

November 30, 2006, When It Warms, It Pours: Climate Change Produces Fewer but More Extreme Monsoon Rains, by David Biello.

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.

The changes to the Walker and Hadley circulations interact with the normal monsoon there and tend to suppress monsoon rains, leading to drought, crop losses and food and water shortages.

It is called Mitti Attar and is made with thick clods of earth that have just received their first monsoon rains.

Rising sea levels, powerful monsoon rains, floods caused by rainfall up river - they are all much more common headline stories.

Plum - sized hail pelts the 4C's curvy red body, and then a thick wall of monsoon rain slams against the windshield.

Nothing could compete with your stories, not even the pounding monsoon rains on the tin roof overhead.

The romantic monsoon rain that hardly shows any furry on the landscape attracts many honeymooners to this exquisite state.

Dave's Landslide blog has some great discussions of the flooding and destruction wrought by the terrible monsoon rains this year in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and China.

Poor monsoon rains have diminished the water available for agriculture and groundwater reservoir replenishment in South Asia, as well as making it [continue reading...]

Temperatures often rise sharply in May before the onset of torrential monsoon rains but scientists say average temperatures are only likely to rise in the years ahead as a result of global warming, with damaging effects on health and productivity.

Republica: Monsoon rain patterns in South Asia including Nepal are fast changing.

«Fall in monsoon rains driven by rise in air pollution, study shows.»

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.