El Paso normally has a hot and dry desert climate, but the city is subject to
seasonal monsoon rains.
Not exact matches
The
seasonal rains called
monsoons matter enormously to human affairs, from the Indian subcontinent to the American Southwest.
If the planetary temperatures rise beyond the 1.5 °C to 2 °C limit proposed by the Paris agreement signed by 197 nations in 2015, then climate change could arrive in Mali, Niger and Chad in the shape of intense
rains of the kind identified as
seasonal monsoons.
Towns where the sea level is creeping further inland may flood easier during the summer
monsoons (
seasonal reversals in the wind) that bring torrential
rains from the southwest.
In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from
monsoon - like
seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.