Sentences with phrase «monsoon season rainfall»

Extreme rainfall was not as much of a feature of 2013 globally as it has been in some recent years, though monsoon season rainfall was generally above normal both in the Indian subcontinent and the Sahel region of west and central Africa.

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But in the past, such drought - spawning events actually occurred during the monsoon season; «the drought peaks at the time when normally this area is receiving its maximum month of rainfall,» Abrams says.

Concentrating monsoon seasons into a smaller geographic area «intensifies the rainfall and lengthens the wet season,» Rhodes said.

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All - India rainfall for the 2017 monsoon season (June to September) was 5 % below average.

During monsoon season this year, India experienced below average rainfall, while three hurricanes hit the North Atlantic.

By measuring isotope ratios in shells from some of these snails from as long ago as 1918, the researchers have demonstrated that they could reconstruct the subseasonal rainfall rate of past monsoon seasons.

The four month monsoon season in Bangladesh brings with it heavy rainfall - making it impossible for thousands of children in flood - prone areas to attend school.

Monsoon season runs from June to October and brings with it around 75 % of Cambodia's annual rainfall!

The very humid monsoon season lasts from October to March, when daily rainfall and low cloud can reduce all visibility for prolonged periods — not great for sightseeing!

Since May falls just before the start of the monsoon season, Goa experiences a fair amount of rainfall during this month, although compared to Europe, this rainfall is hardly anything.

With the amount of rainfall still more than the dry season at the end of the monsoon the average humidity has dropped to a slightly more comfortable 85 % that is down from October's highs of 90 %.

Highest variance is seen in the rainfall during the monsoon with highs of 400 mm to the dry season with lows of 30 and 40 mm a day.

They have also found that there is substantial variability within the monsoon season, including fluctuations between periods of heavy rainfall (wet spells) and low rainfall (dry spells).

WA Regional Climate Services Manager Mr Glenn Cook explained that the high rainfall was due to an active monsoon season in the north of the state, as a result of the current La Nina and aided by warmer than normal waters off the WA north coast.

WRI: Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September.

The resulting governing equation exhibits the necessary solution structure to explain qualitatively both strong, persistent changes in monsoon rainfall, as observed in paleorecords, and abrupt variablity within one rainy season.

These processes are the advection of heat and moisture during monsoon season and the associated rainfall and release of latent heat.

The rains during the 4 - month - long monsoon season (June to September)-- accounting for more than 80 % of India's annual rainfall — are crucial for the agricultural economy.

For central India and its west coast, rainfall in the early (15 May - 20 June) and late (15 September - 20 October) monsoon season correlates with Pacific Ocean sea - surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the preceding month (April and August, respectively) sufficiently well, that those SST anomalies...

Monsoon season in India typically lasts between June and September and is characterised by sudden heavy rainfall and flooding.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) and two private weather forecasting firms all expect a bountiful rainfall in India during the June - September monsoon season in 2016.

In India a marked seasonal alternation of rainfall and drought, caused by the monsoon, extends northward into latitudes where distinct temperature seasons also exist.