1) Air current 2) Asian rainy season 3) Asian wind 4) Bringer of rain 5) British world music group 6) Climate 7) Color photograph 8) Current of air 9) Heavy rain period 10) Indian summer occurrence 11) Kind of winds 12) Periodic wind 13) Rainfall season 14) Rainmaker 15) Rainy season 16) Rainy season in India
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In the Southwest, a seasonal outbreak of localized severe thunderstorms that deposit large quantities of rain often resulting in flash floods, especially in canyon country where there are narrow slot canyons and little vegetation to help absorb the sudden rush of water.
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Monsoon (UK: n; US: n) is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seas...
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A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime.
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• (n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of De...
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The seasonal shift of winds created by the great annual temperature variation that occurs over large land areas in contrast with associated ocean surfaces. The monsoon is associated primarily with the moisture and copious rains that arrive with the southwest flow across southern India. The name is derived from the word mausim, Arabic for season. Th...
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The seasonal shift in wind direction that brings alternate very wet and very dry seasons to India and much of Southeast Asia.
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any of a type of major wind system that seasonally reverses its direction—e.g., one that blows for approximately six months from the northeast and ... [21 related articles]
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A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime. It is most commonly used to describe meteorological changes in
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A seasonal wind that brings rain to many places of the world, for example India and Southern Asia
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Mon·soon' noun [ Malay
mūsim , from Arabic
mausim a time, season: confer French
monson ,
mousson , Sr.
monzon , Portuguese
monção , Italian
monsone .] A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposi...
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a persistent wind throughout a season but often refers to the heavy rains that accompany them. Best known is the summer southwesterly monsoon over India followed by a northeasterly monsoon over Southeast Asia in winter. The major cause is the unequal heating between the land and sea.
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A regional scale wind system that predictably change direction with the passing of the seasons. Monsoon winds blow from land to sea in the winter, and from sea to land in the summer. Summer monsoons are often accompanied with precipitation.
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A monsoon is a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and nearby lands blowing from the north-east in October to March, and from the south-west in April to September, occasioned by the deflection of permanent winds from their normal path through the heating of a neighbouring land mass.
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A persistent seasonal wind, often responsible for seasonal precipitation regime. It is most commonly used to describe meteorological changes in southern and eastern Asia.
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season of wind originating from the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, these winds are usually accompanied by heavy rains.
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Rainy season in India
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a wind that blows seasonally in Asia
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seasonal period of heavy rain
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A name for seasonal winds, first applied to the winds over the Arabian Sea that blow for six months from the northeast and for six months from the southwest. The term has been extended to similar winds in other parts of the world (i.e., the prevailing west to northwest winds of summer in Europe have been called the European monsoon). The primary ca...
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noun a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
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Very persistent winds which may blow for months at a time from one general wind direction during one season and then a quite different, often opposing direction for another season. Originally, the name for the seasonal winds that blow across the Arabian Sea. For six months the winds blow consistently from the northeast and for six months from the s...
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Wind pattern that brings seasonally heavy rain to South Asia; it blows towards the sea in winter and towards the land in summer. The monsoon may cause destructive flooding all over India and Southeast Asia from April to September, leaving thousands of people homeless each year. The monsoon cycle is believed to have started about 12 million year...
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the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter. · (in India and nearby lands) the season during which the southwest monsoon blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season. · any wind that changes directions with the seasons. · any persistent wind ...
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