Sentences with phrase «when monsoon»

The Walker circulation usually brings areas of high pressure to the western Indian Ocean but, in years when El Niño occurs, this pattern gets shifted eastward, bringing high pressure over India and suppressing the monsoon, especially in spring when the monsoon begins to develop.

When all Monsoon producing oscillations occur at the same time, you have floods and death, but water loving crops thrive.

Dali Lake is located near the northwestern limit of the East Asian monsoon, and so would reflect the changes brought about when the monsoon shifted north.

Similarly, another historic climatic anomaly occurred in 2011 when the monsoon axis set its orientation from head of Bay of Bengal to southern Sindh which was commonly found parallel to the Himalayas in case of heavy precipitation in Pakistan.

After May, the hottest month of the year, things start to cool down in Goa, India in June, when the monsoon season is just beginning.

There may be a reduction in visibility during the October to November period when monsoon winds and swells can be present.

Knowing when the monsoon is coming is important because India's agriculture - dominated economy depends heavily on its wet season.

And, depending on the material, they can actually keep you dry when the monsoons come.

Humanitarian groups are afraid of what will happen when the monsoons come.

Phuket has a tropical climate, which means warm, dry winters and hot, humid summers when the monsoons arrive.

The region was one that regularly flooded when the monsoons hit.

Because Mt. Everest is high enough to produce snow when Monsoons come over the mountains, this recent heavy Monsoon deluge may have put a boatload of snow on that glacier.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Their high points were ridiculously high (a 50 - 7 win over Texas, 40 - 10 over West Virginia), and even at the end of the regular season, when attrition was taking a toll, they came within a two - point conversion of beating CFP semifinalist Oklahoma in Norman, then outlasted Baylor in a monsoon.

Michigan State once again beat Michigan in a monsoon, Alabama looked mortal for the first time in weeks, Clemson elected once again to pull its «look good when you have to, and not a moment more» routine, and your Heisman favorite (Penn State's Saquon Barkley) had negative rushing yards well into the second half of an easy win.

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.

Information about monsoon timing is key for Indian farmers to determine when to carry out the sowing.

But Kristjánsson said their result could be explained by a monsoon circulation that shifts to land when only ocean areas get cooled down.

Specifically, they found that during El Niño Modoki events, when drought was occurring in central India, the mineral chemistry suggested more localized storm events occurred above the cave, while during the non-El Niño periods, the water that seeped into the cave had traveled much farther before it fell, which is the typical monsoon pattern.

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

If that were to happen during monsoon season, when the dams are full, the consequences could be catastrophic.

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

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

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 sulphur in the lower atmosphere below 15kms is reflecting sunlight back into space but the black soot also a component in the ABC's is heating when bombarded with solar radiation and warming the atmosphere up to 15kms dramatically affecting cloud formation and monsoon / drought cycles.

When the equatorial central and eastern Pacific is in a decadal warm period, summer monsoon rainfall is stronger in the Yangtze River valley but weaker in North China.

I found the paper fascinating when I handled it at Nature, and it certainly stirred things up in the monsoon community.

Well its true that the super tight look of the skinny pants have had a grip on our wardrobe for as long as I can remember but we have to agree that during monsoon when it gets a little humid, we are drawn towards a looser, slouchier silhouette.And our legs could use some breathing room, isn't it?

I love monsoon season like any good Arizonan... except when it stops me from taking outfit photos!

When you have monsoon conditions like this, it's a roll of the dice and we got snake eyes.

STEVENSON, Wash. - A vague suspicion becomes a firm conviction when one is peering through mountain monsoons and dancing along back roads slick with summer slush leaking from snow - capped Cascades: Next to a Ferarri Maranello at almost four times the price, the 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera is the finest - handling sports car in the world.

Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home.

Most exciting was when a ferocious monsoon began two days before we left, intensified by a cyclone farther north.

But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

Essentially when we put all our money in Indian stocks, we are affected by the success / failure of monsoon, tensions or lack of the same with our country's neighbours, political stability or lack thereof and so on.

Humidity and rainfalls are low, except during the monsoon period from October to April, when rainfalls can be heavy, especially from January to March.

According to The Washington Post, the sandstorm is actually a haboob, «caused by the downdrafts of a collapsing thunderstorm complex generated by the Southwest monsoon... When the downdrafts — made up of -LSB-...]

According to The Washington Post, the sandstorm is actually a haboob, «caused by the downdrafts of a collapsing thunderstorm complex generated by the Southwest monsoon... When the downdrafts — made up of rapidly descending air — smashed down on the desert ground, they stirred up large amounts of sand and dust subsequently carried forth by the storm outflow.»

The best time to visit Ooty is during the monsoon, around August, when the rainfall is heavy.

The monsoons can affect the dive sites adversely and should be considered when choosing your liveaboard and destination.

Since then, she has contributed to almost every issue and has always met her deadlines, even when cut off from civilisation in the wilds of Nepal during the monsoon.

The best conditions for diving here are during October and November, when the weather is generally calm and during the start of southeast monsoon, which typically extends from May to July.

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!

This area has great swimming and snorkeling but as with all the beaches on the west side caution must be observed during the monsoon season when the tides are exceptionally strong.

Both the Similans and Hin Daeng are only accessible during October to May each year — the rest of the year is monsoon season when conditions are too rough in the Andaman Sea for safe diving (or boat travel, for that matter).

Divers who want to spend some time enjoying the beaches and tourist activities in high season should avoid July to November when the rainy season and monsoon winds arrive.

If you are travelling during monsoon, make sure the hotel has indoor activities like gym, spa, pool table etc. to keep you occupied when you are unable to step out of the hotel.

Below you'll find a selection of just a few... Note: Not all islands can be visited in the monsoon season (May - October) when the weather conditions can be unpredictable.

When the waves are big during the monsoon season surfers head here to surf a few waves in the southern corner as it is more protected.