monsoon
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California’s first storms of the monsoon season are expected to arrive this weekend, raising concerns about heightened wildfire risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
During La Niña, warmer waters remain farther west, strengthening monsoon rains across parts of South and Southeast Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
These crops depend heavily on the southwest monsoon, which normally provides about 70% of India's annual rainfall.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The night they beat Georgia in the Glasgow monsoon was one of the most memorable of the entire Clarke regime.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The sky is black and echoes with the thunder of monsoon storms.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
This includes drought across parts of the Amazon, Indonesia and Australia, disrupted monsoons in India, and shifting rainfall throughout the tropics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The tech company has been helping farmers in India monitor the threat of monsoons through its open-source AI model to provide granular forecasting data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Ocean-derived moisture can travel across continents within large weather systems including atmospheric rivers, monsoons and tropical storms.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
His province is where most deaths have been recorded during this year's monsoons.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
He would’ve explained how during the dry season it was exactly like any other river, nothing special, but how in October the monsoons began and the whole situation changed.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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