In the monsoon season, her commute time can easily double.
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The northeast monsoon season in the region set in on Oct.
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The monsoon season delivers about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall.
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The monsoon season comes in May and can last until November.
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These two periods are before and immediately after India's southwest monsoon season.
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There's more bad news: Monsoon season is just around the corner. 4.
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Just one bad monsoon season can devastate farmers, pushing them toward starvation.
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Retaliatory trade measures, monsoon season in Bangladesh and China's World Cup reach.
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India The monsoon season has arrived with a vengeance in and around Mumbai.
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These two periods are prior to, and immediately following, India's southwest monsoon season.
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Encephalitis outbreaks kill hundreds in India every year, especially during the monsoon season.
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The third is waiting until the flood waters subside after the monsoon season.
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This year's monsoon season has inundated many areas, endangering lives and forcing evacuations.
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The monsoon season often brings high winds to coastal areas and flash storms.
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This week saw the first deaths due to the start of the monsoon season.
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Indonesia suffers regular landslides, particularly during the monsoon season, sometimes exacerbated by forest clearance.
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India's June-September monsoon season is forecast to be normal this year, Tapley said.
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Cox's Bazar is also vulnerable to flooding but this year's monsoon season was light.
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"I remember an insane monsoon season," says Clemente, who was 27 during their stay.
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Monsoon season could mean catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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South Asia suffers from frequent flooding during the June-to-September monsoon season each year.
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In it, she told tales of rebel conflicts, the monsoon season and 12-inch spiders.
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Thailand is in the middle of its monsoon season which usually ends in mid-October.
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The rains represent only the beginning of the monsoon season, which stretches on until September.
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The storm had kicked up suddenly, as they often do during the summer monsoon season.
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Kharif crops include rice, maize, sorghum and cotton, and are planted during the monsoon season.
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But this may fall once monsoon season kicks in and curbs transportation, the source added.
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The U.N. said tens of thousands will need to be relocated before the monsoon season.
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In 2005, in this same area, more than 1,000 people died during the monsoon season.
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The lakes in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, routinely fill up completely during the monsoon season.
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Thailand is in the middle of its monsoon season which brings with it adverse weather conditions.
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India has received 17% less rain than average since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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Overall, India has received 16% below average rain since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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India's farming sector is heavily reliant on the monsoon season, which runs from June to September.
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The rains have lasted longer than the traditional monsoon season, which normally subsides around early September.
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Since the monsoon season ends in October, this could mean up to a four-month wait.
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In China along the Mekong River, fish would swim into rice paddies during the monsoon season.
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Landslides and floods are common in Indonesia, especially during the monsoon season from October to April.
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One day during monsoon season in 2012, he took a long run up Canyon de Chelly.
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The monsoon season, which typically lasts from June to September, flooded several states and submerged farms.
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These two states received nearly a tenth less rainfall than normal during the June-September monsoon season.
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The country has so far received 5 percent lower rainfall than normal in the current monsoon season.
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Floods occur frequently during the monsoon season, spewing untreated sewage onto the streets and so spreading disease.
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Overall, India has received 19% less rain than average since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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The planting figures are also subject to revision depending on progress of the June-September monsoon season.
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Overall, India has received 16% lower than average rain since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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The south Asian country is forecast to receive surplus rainfall during the June to September monsoon season.
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The country has so far received 9 percent lower rainfall than normal in the current monsoon season.
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Overall, India has received 16% less rain than average since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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Parts of South Asia were pounded by historic rainfall during the height of monsoon season last month.
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Nuri is also worried about the rain and monsoon season that had just begun in Cox's Bazar.
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The Asian monsoon season, primed by the El Niño phenomenon, opened with a disaster in Sri Lanka.
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More than 13,200 people have died in South Asia's monsoon season, and the rains aren't over yet.
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The country has so far received 5 percent lower rainfall than normal in the current monsoon season.
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Since the start of the monsoon season on June 1, rains have been 5 percent below average.
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The food supply for more than a billion people relies on the rains of the monsoon season.
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But in the past two weeks, during the monsoon season, the river has risen about three feet.
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Outbreaks of encephalitis are common every year in India, claiming hundreds of lives, especially during the monsoon season.
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That will affect weather and climate phenomena, such as India's monsoon season, thousands of miles to the south.
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Every monsoon season, hundreds come from other parts of India; most are farmers the rest of the year.
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They have received a third weaker rainfall than usual since the start of monsoon season on June 20173.
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INDIA RECEIVES 9% LESS RAINFALL THAN AVERAGE IN THE FIRST HALF OF JUNE-SEPT MONSOON SEASON-WEATHER OFFICE
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Another severe monsoon season in 2014 killed over 100 people in Nepal, and displaced more than 17,000 families.
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The monsoon season is what he describes as the shut-off valve for fire season in the Southwest.
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"It's monsoon season in Arizona and these storms build quickly and dump a lot of moisture," Hornung said.
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India receives 80 percent of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season that runs between June and September.
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This year, a weak monsoon season has wiped small cardamom production, threatening the livelihoods of thousands of producers.
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South Asia has seen a historic amount of rain and flooding this month, the height of monsoon season.
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Overall, India has received 9% less rain than average in the first half of June-September monsoon season.
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Thailand is in the middle of monsoon season, which brings high winds and flash storms to coastal areas.
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I left Second Nature in fall, after monsoon season, in weather like the weather I came in on.
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As we unloaded gear and dinner, dark thunderheads appeared to the west; it was monsoon season in Arizona.
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With the start of the monsoon season, likely lasting through September, traders expect lower LNG orders from India.
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Thailand is in the midst of its monsoon season which begins in May and usually ends in October.
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Thunderstorms outside of the regular monsoon season are common in Nepal, but never has one been so deadly.
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The country is beset by a range of endemic infectious diseases, particularly during monsoon season, between May and October.
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Overall, India has received 5% less rain than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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Overall, India has received 2% more rain than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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Overall, India has received rains that were 16% less than average since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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According to Biju, the best time to find frogs is during India's monsoon season, which runs June through August.
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Overall, India has received 1% more rainfall than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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In Goa, balchão is a preserve for monsoon season when fish and other seafood are hard to come by.
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Overall, India has received 1% more rainfall than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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Floods are an annual occurrence in Assam and many parts of India during monsoon season from June to September.
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Laos and its neighbors are in the middle of the monsoon season that brings tropical storms and heavy downpours.
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Overall, India has received 3% more rain than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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Laos and its neighbors are in the middle of the monsoon season that brings tropical storms and heavy rain.
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It is monsoon season, when heavy rains shut down the machines for long stretches and tamp down the dust.
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Africa's largest coal terminal blamed a weak third quarter, tied to the monsoon season which impacted top customer India.
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One might say the conditions could not be worse, but the monsoon season, with its lashing rains, is coming.
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Overall, India has received 5% more rain than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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Laos and its neighbours are in the middle of the monsoon season that brings tropical storms and heavy rain.
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India has received rain that is 28 percent less than average since the monsoon season began on June 1.
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The southwest monsoon season lasts from June through September and provides India with the vast majority of its annual rainfall.
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For the first two months of the monsoon season, rainfall was below average, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data.
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The figures are provisional and subject to revision as updates arrive with the progress of the June-September monsoon season.
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Dam management experts who spoke to Reuters said such levels were dangerously high for the middle of India's monsoon season.
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The central bank is concerned that food prices could spike should India experience a below-average monsoon season this year.
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Asia August is monsoon season for South Asia, a time when much of the subcontinent is inundated with heavy rains.
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NEW DELHI — Farmers in India have been fervently awaiting this year's monsoon season after two consecutive years of inadequate rains.
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Thailand is in the midst of its monsoon season and while Monday was relatively dry, the rains returned on Tuesday.
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The brutal monsoon season has affected more than 40 million people and left millions homeless, and isolating thousands of villages.
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The storm hit on Saturday, about a month into the region's monsoon season, which lasts from mid-June through September.
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And then, just feeding them oxygen could only last for so long because the monsoon season, I guess, ends in October.
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The central bank will also be watching for meteorological storm clouds: the closely watched monsoon season and its impact on inflation.
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Torrential rains and landslides during India's June-September monsoon season have ravaged farmlands and prompted massive evacuation efforts in Kerala state.
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Such incidents are common in India during monsoon season, when heavy rains weaken the foundations of structures that are poorly constructed.
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The onset of the monsoon season has prompted tempered optimism that India may be spared a third straight year of drought.
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The park is normally closed to tourists from mid-May to mid-October because of safety concerns during the monsoon season.
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But, as they say, it's a dry heat, at least when it's not monsoon season, with its powerful heat-driven storms.
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Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis outbreaks are common in India, especially during the monsoon season, and claim hundreds of lives.
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India has so far received 2 percent lower rainfall than normal since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.
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The initial rescue plan was to wait out the monsoon season, or at least to wait until the boys regained strength.
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Now they face Bangladesh's monsoon season, slicked with mud and soaked to the skin, waiting under tarpaulins with nowhere to go.
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In 2014, India received 42% less rainfall in June and ended the June-Sept monsoon season with rains 12% below average.
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The city received 66% more rainfall than average during the June to September monsoon season, breaking a record set in 1954.
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Even though floods during the monsoon season are not uncommon in this part of the world, climate change can exacerbate them.
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These problems could be compounded if a weak monsoon season, with rainfall already well behind schedule, adds to household sector pain.
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Thengar Char Island is 37 miles from the mainland, only about 115 square miles in size and floods during the monsoon season.
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"India is currently in their summer or pre-monsoon season, which lasts from April to late May, or early June," says Guy.
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India Times explains that these snakes often come out seeking higher and dryer ground when their nests are flooded during monsoon season.
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Oxygen levels in the cave were dropping, making it risky to wait until monsoon season ends in October and water levels fall.
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Crisscrossed with dry stream beds, or washes, that flood during the violent summer monsoon season, the landscape burns under a relentless sun.
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Overall, India has received 18% below average rain since the monsoon season began on June 1, the India Meteorological Department's website showed.
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"The La Nina is unlikely to develop during monsoon season," D. S. Pai, head of Long Range Forecast at IMD, told Reuters.
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Military officials said the weather had been rough in the Bay of Bengal for the last two days during the monsoon season.
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But that evidence and witnesses are in danger of disappearing as monsoon season and squalid refugee camp conditions threaten phones and lives.
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As monsoon season draws to a close in December, agents expect home sales to pick up and continue to grow through February.
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The weather in the area was bad, residents said, with pounding rain typical of the monsoon season that is now enveloping Myanmar.
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A good monsoon season is important to farm output in India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice, wheat, sugar and cotton.
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Their school is near the Teesta River, and during the monsoon season which lasts from June to December, it goes under water.
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Expect to spend around 230,403 rupees for two; Bomra's is closed during the monsoon season (from May to September), so plan accordingly.
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We're seeing the uptick, the agency says, because of El Niño's end and a strong West African monsoon season, among other factors.
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Madhya Pradesh is in central India and, like much of the country, experiences extremely hot and dry summers before the monsoon season.
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The United Nations estimates that 228 million people in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal have been affected by this year's unusually strong monsoon season.
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Oh sure, the enormous concrete labyrinth houses the gargantuan machines that keep a vast swath of metropolitan Tokyo from flooding during monsoon season.
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Dengue is common in South Asia, especially during the monsoon season which runs from June to September, and if untreated, it can kill.
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The latest forecasts from global models indicate conditions over the Pacific will turn neutral before the beginning of monsoon season, the IMD said.
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To help fishermen get through the year, the government now provides supplemental food during the monsoon season when trawling is banned, he said.
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Every June-September monsoon season, India experiences fatal incidents of building and wall collapses as rainfall weakens the foundation of poorly-built structures.
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But the monsoon season is just beginning and lasts until September, and the death toll is expected to rise in the coming weeks.
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The RBI is concerned that food prices could spike should India experience a below-average monsoon season in the middle of the year.
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The festival also marks the reversal of flow between the Tonle Sap and the Mekong River, signaling the end of the monsoon season.
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Rohingya refugees in makeshift camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border could soon face a new threat to their living conditions — the monsoon season.
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Military officials said the weather had been rough in the Bay of Bengal over the last two days because of the monsoon season.
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Building collapses in India are common during the June to September monsoon season when heavy rains weaken the foundations of badly constructed buildings.
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The US hopes to reach an agreement by March in order to conduct a search mission for remains before the summer monsoon season.
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An article on Monday about a storm that killed nine people in Arizona misstated the date on which the state's monsoon season started.
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This included possibly leaving the team inside Tham Luang for three or four more months until the monsoon season ended and the water abated.
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The monsoon season starts with rains on the southern Kerala coast around June 1, and usually covers the country by the middle of July.
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All of this is happening as the ultra wet monsoon season comes to a close in the area, making water harder to come by.
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Rains have been 4 percent above average since the four-month monsoon season began in June, according to the state-run India Meteorological Department.
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The Fatal Potholes of Mumbai Deep potholes on the roads of the state of Maharashtra are a persistent nuisance, especially during the monsoon season.
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The monsoon season starts with rains on the southern Kerala coast around June 1, and usually covers the country by the middle of July.
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Philippines monsoon Further south, the Philippines' monsoon season has been exacerbated by Son Tinh, Ampil, and now Tropical Depression 13W (known locally as "Josie").
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" Humans Rights Watch (HRW) also warned that "rickety structures won't be able to withstand the storms and heavy rains of the imminent monsoon season.
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More than 1,600 people have been killed over this monsoon season, according to Reuters, many of which are due to collapsing buildings and walls.
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It is monsoon season in Myanmar, but Kyaw Kyaw Htey said the weather had been "normal" with good visibility when the plane took off.
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The peak season for tourism in Sri Lanka is between December and March, while the rainy monsoon season lies between May and September. MakeMyTrip.
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What dire circumstances are Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh facing as they enter monsoon season, and what brought them to Bangladesh in the first place?
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More than 1,000 people have died in flooding in seven Indian states since the start of the monsoon season, including over 350 in Kerala.
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The monsoon season usually comes in the summer, but it arrived late in June, a hard blow to drought-stricking farmers and rural residents.
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NATIONAL An article on Monday about a storm that killed nine people in Arizona misstated the date on which the state's monsoon season started.
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That's the only window of good weather, sandwiched between the monsoon season, which usually begins in June, and the end of the frigid winter.
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Worst in over a decade Although Mumbai experiences monsoon season every year, rain on Monday and Tuesday was the heaviest in more than a decade.
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For now, the worst of the flooding has receded -- but another deluge is forecast in the next week and the monsoon season stretches until October.
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Heaviest rains in a decade Although Mumbai experiences monsoon season every year, rain on Monday and Tuesday was the heaviest in more than a decade.
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The afternoon storm and flash flooding threat continues this week across the Southwest and Rockies as we get into the "monsoon season" over the region.
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It's monsoon season in Thailand, but cave rescuers have been blessed with a brief dry spell, making the next 24 hours all the more critical.
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India depends primarily on rainfall for agricultural irrigation, and the quality of the monsoon season will have a large impact on inflation across the country.
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The monsoon season delivers about 70% of India's annual rainfall and is key to the success of the farm sector in Asia's third-biggest economy.
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This year the Rubin Museum of Art, dedicated to the culture of the Himalayas, will explore that region's monsoon season at its annual block party.
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Although flooding often occurs during the summer monsoon season, this seems to be the worst case in decades, and is unlikely to let up soon.
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Floods and landslides are common in India and Nepal during the June-September monsoon season and the death toll runs into the hundreds every year.
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He created the "Rain Study" series in 2017 by taking charcoal drawings outdoors during monsoon season to see how exposure to downpours would alter them.
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Mudslides have become common during the monsoon season in Sri Lanka, as land has been heavily deforested to grow export crops like tea and rubber.
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Rising sea levels and the inability of crumbling infrastructure to cope with excess water during heavy storms and the monsoon season result in regular flooding.
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Maharashtra, India's second-biggest sugar producer, received 23 percent less rainfall than normal this year during the June-September monsoon season, according to state government data.
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Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said the project was necessary to prevent annual floods during monsoon season and alternative housing had been provided to those affected.
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At least 37 people have died and 21 are missing after three days of incessant rains that came just a couple weeks before the monsoon season.
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Lightning strikes are common during monsoon season in India, and most of the people who died were working in the fields during torrential rains on Tuesday.
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During the monsoon season, warm, moist air sneaks northward from the Gulf of California, triggering showers and thunderstorms across the desert Southwest, from California to Arizona.
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The monsoon season delivers about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall and is key to the success of the farm sector in Asia's third-biggest economy.
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Thankfully, El Niño is in retreat, and the India Meteorological Department is forecasting an above-average monsoon season later this year, which will provide some relief.
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India needs this year's monsoon season to deliver heavier rainfall that will boost farm output and economic growth — but the country has been disappointed so far.
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Hundreds of volunteers and specialist international search teams battled heavy rains to locate the missing group, as Thailand is in the midst of its monsoon season.
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Thailand's monsoon season runs from July to October and, while the past few days have been relatively dry, the long-term forecast is rain for months.
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In every monsoon season, from June to September, India suffers fatal incidents of building and wall collapses as rainfall weakens the foundations of poorly-built structures.
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There's "nothing the RBI policy can do" about supply-side influences on inflation, such as monsoon season and oil prices driving food and fuel prices, he said.
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Then we take a brief walk outside; the weather in Bangalore is akin to California, so even though it's monsoon season, it's usually 80 degrees and breezy.
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The slow progress of the June-to-September monsoon season had led to fears of widespread drought, and has curbed the sowing of several summer-planted crops.
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Countries in the region suffer frequent flooding during the June-September monsoon season, but international aid agencies say things are have been worse than normal this year.
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A joint dive with Indonesia's National Research Centre of Archaeology originally set for October had to be postponed due to the early onset of the monsoon season.
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Parts of Myanmar flood annually at the peak of the monsoon season, causing frequent landslides and widespread damage to farmland and infrastructure in the Southeast Asian nation.
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China showed further signs of recovery while India would benefit from a more intense monsoon season, with farmers more likely to spend on construction after plentiful rains.
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And with around 55% of India's arable land dependent on rain, the monsoon season could sway economic activity in the agriculture sector and industries linked to it.
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Rains in Gujarat and Maharashtra, which account for more than half of India's cotton production, were nearly a quarter below normal during the June-September monsoon season.
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More than half a million Rohingya refugees face looming disaster from floods and landslides when the first storms of the monsoon season hit their camp in Bangladesh.
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Devoted to sustainability, the hotel, its farms and swimming pool use only harvested rainwater — accumulated each year during the monsoon season — which is then treated and filtered.
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Mumbai is a coastal city that regularly floods during the monsoon season, which lasts from June until September and delivers about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall.
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On clear days, especially after monsoon season, when the city's rooftops are dotted with people, kites speckle the sky, their threads forming an invisible cat's cradle overhead.
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All of northern India is breathing toxic air, just as it does every winter when pollutants get trapped in the atmosphere as the windy monsoon season ends.
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However, the lack of proper drainage in most parts of the city almost always results in flooding during monsoon season in some of the congested, old neighborhoods.
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Tropical cyclone activity during the monsoon season is extremely rare because the monsoon is characterized by high wind shear which makes it difficult for tropical storms to form.
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Tropical cyclone activity during the monsoon season is extremely rare because the monsoon is characterized by high wind shear, which makes it difficult for tropical storms to form.
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Meanwhile, predictions by weather agencies are triggering fears that this year's monsoon season — critical to the country's huge farming sector — could lead to lower rainfall and affect harvests.
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The IMD releases its second monsoon forecast in the last week of May or first week of June with an update in the middle of the monsoon season.
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A delayed monsoon season has left millions of people struggling to access clean water in Chennai, India, while alternative sources and methods prove costly and ineffective, CBS reports.
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Meanwhile, weather forecasters have warned that this year's monsoon season could suffer the El Nino effect, which could reduce rainfall and lead to a spike in food prices.
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The four-month monsoon season delivers about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall and is key to the success of the farm sector in Asia's third-biggest economy.
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The annual monsoon season, which brings the most rain across south Asia, also hit Bangladesh hard, forcing an estimated 190,000 people out of their homes, government officials said.
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Chief Minister Vijayan has estimated that more than 200,000 people have been forced to move into relief camps since the monsoon season brought torrential rains three months ago.
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Yet demand remains high, thanks to poor conditions in Myanmar and Bangladesh, and officials fear that smuggling could pick up again after monsoon season winds down in September.
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It's causing whiplash for farmers, as monsoon season started during an unusually dry June, which led to water stress and drought in parts of central and south India.
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The Tham Luang Nang Non caves are known locally as off-limits, a dangerous place where parents warn their children not to go into, especially during monsoon season.
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During his tenure as Jakarta governor, Mr. Joko expedited the construction of a rapid transit system and the rehabilitation of waterways and reservoirs to reduce monsoon season floods.
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As monsoon season came and went, the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in neighboring Congo began to escalate and then spill over into Zambia with repercussions all along the lake.
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Flooding is an annual problem during the monsoon season in South Asia, but the impact has been worsened by crumbling civic infrastructure, clogged drains and uncontrolled urban expansion.
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During every monsoon season, which runs from June to September, India experiences fatal incidents of building and wall collapses as rainfall weakens the foundations of poorly-built structures.
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Meteorologists and fire behavior experts say fire conditions have moderated, and they don&apost expect them to return to extreme conditions before the expected arrival of summer monsoon season.
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To make matters worse, the monsoon season is expected to last for another four to five months, and water levels aren't expected to drop until then (human intervention notwithstanding).
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Rains in Gujarat and Maharashtra, which account for more than half of India's cotton production, were nearly a quarter below normal during the June-September monsoon season in 2018.
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Elsewhere, sea level rise and the monsoon season have pushed populations inland in heavily populated Bangladesh, as Rohingya refugees are forced to settle in marginal areas vulnerable to flooding.
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For the rest of the week, Sri Lanka will likely be experiencing scattered rainfall that occurs just a couple weeks before the monsoon season, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris says.
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For the June to September monsoon season, India is likely to receive 96% of the average of rainfall received during the past 50 years, the IMD forecast last month.
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For the June to September monsoon season, India is likely to receive 96% of the average of rainfall received during the past 50 years, the IMD forecast last month.
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The other major fare-driving factor is seasons, meaning we tend to avoid places with severe weather conditions, like Southeast Asia during monsoon season and Canada in the winter.
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To their chagrin, the river will no longer gush past their southern neighbours during monsoon season and end up in Lake Nasser, the huge reservoir behind the Aswan Dam.
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During the recent monsoon season, elephant herds crossed the nearby Peechi reservoir and raided the neighboring villages of Kalladik, Thekkumpadu and Poolachode, trampling plantain trees and destroying villagers' huts.
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India has received rain that is 19% less than average since the monsoon season began on June 1, after last year's drought wilted crops in western and southern India.
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Building and wall collapses occur every monsoon season, when rainfall weakens the foundations of the poorly-built slum structures that house 40 to 50 percent of the city's population.
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Some recent modeling studies show these seemingly easy fixes could backfire in catastrophic ways, such as disrupting the Indian monsoon season and completely drying out the Sahel of Africa.
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Then monsoon season rolls around and it's the most beautiful sight—the storms here are incredible and you fall in love with it again; it's this never ending cycle.
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Rohingya camped out in Cox's Bazar said they don't want to move to the island, fearing they could die there during the monsoon season and there won't be any work.
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There is a 41 percent chance of India experiencing average rainfall, and 12 percent chance of above average rainfall during the second half of the monsoon season, the IMD said.
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According to the U.S-based International Research Institute for Climate and Society, El Nino probability is up at 70 percent and can occur in July which is peak monsoon season.
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The government has ordered all mining activity in Hpakant to cease during Myanmar's May-October monsoon season, but people in the area say scavengers still scour tailing piles for jade.
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On May 6, the museum will open Nepalese Seasons: Rain and Ritual, which will use objects from the collection to connect sacred art to the importance of the monsoon season.
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India: Satellite images demonstrate that one of the country's largest cities — Chennai, with nearly five million people — is running low on water, in part because of a delayed monsoon season.
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"80 dams opened, 324 lives lost and 223,139 people are in about 1,500+ relief camps," he tweeted, referring to the overall death toll in Kerala so far this monsoon season.
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The truth is that with the exception of a couple of months during monsoon season, by the time the Yamuna River reaches Greater Noida, there is no river at all.
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The end of monsoon season in India is also expected to reduce exports of gasoil from the nation as it focuses on robust domestic demand for the fuel, traders said.
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Indeed, most of the other omens were not good: the Indian monsoon season in 2015 was among the driest in decades, and Chhota Shigri appears to have received less snow.
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Monsoon season has been slow to progress across India this year, running about two weeks behind schedule and more than 30% below expected rainfall since June 1 nationwide, CNN Weather found.
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One option was for them to stay in the cave, bring in supplies, and they could stay there until the monsoon season ended and then they could get out more safely.
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A plan to leave the boys in the caves until the monsoon season ends—which won't happen for another four months—is appearing less feasible with each passing day and hour.
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Looking ahead, bountiful rains in the June-September monsoon season should provide some support to growth and relief to India's 10 million farmers as they recover from two consecutive drought years.
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"If farm incomes are reduced by a poor monsoon season, it also impacts negatively on agricultural processing output (as well as) retail trade and other services in rural regions," he added.
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Last week, Goldman Sachs said it expects the world's fastest growing major economy to accelerate further due to several factors including a better monsoon season and progress on major economic reforms.
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The monsoon season, which begins in earnest in about a month, will potentially imperil hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees huddled in low-lying makeshift camps along the country's eastern border.
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Prices drop at least 30 percent until the end of September, but Ms. Caulfield said that May and June are uncomfortably hot while July and August is heart of monsoon season.
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In the days before the incident, torrential rainfall had pounded India's financial capital during an unusually strong monsoon season, which has left more than 1,200 dead across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
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It's about 30,000 hectares in size, more than 37 miles from the mainland, officially uninhabited and mostly flooded during heavy rain or monsoon season, District Forest Officer Amir Hossain Chowdhury told CNN.
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The monsoon season is responsible for around 70% of India's annual rainfall, and is particularly important for the farm sector since more than half of the country's arable land is rain-fed.
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The rescue crews are working with a series of pipes fed through the winding cave in an effort to pump water out, but their efforts are hampered by Thailand's rainy monsoon season.
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Water is typically scarce in the summer months, but the situation has been particularly grim this year in western and southern states that received below average rainfall in the 213 monsoon season.
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India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly grim in western and southern states which received less than normal rainfall in the 2018 monsoon season.
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Maharashtra received 23 percent less rainfall than normal this year during the June to September monsoon season, while the rainfall deficit in Karnataka's cane growing region was 29 percent during the period.
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The chief minister of the southwestern state has estimated that more than 200,000 people have been forced to move into relief camps since the monsoon season brought torrential rains three months ago.
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Floods in South Asia cause mass displacement and deaths annually, and the death toll and damage from the current monsoon season, which has just begun, is likely to increase in coming weeks.
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Water is typically scarce in the summer months, but the situation has been particularly grim this year in western and southern states which received below average rainfall in the 2018 monsoon season.
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Water is typically scarce in the summer months, but the situation has been particularly grim this year in western and southern states that received below average rainfall in the 2018 monsoon season.
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A normal, or average, monsoon means rainfall between 96% and 104% of a 50-year average of 89 cm (35 inches) during the four-month monsoon season, according to the IMD's classification.
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Nearly half of India's farmland lacks irrigation and the monsoon season delivers about 70% of the country's annual rainfall - key to the success of the farm sector in Asia's third-biggest economy.
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Water is typically scarce in the summer months, but the situation has been particularly grim this year in western and southern states that received below-average rainfall in the 2018 monsoon season.
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She is one of many Rohingya refugees desperate to make the journey before the start of the looming monsoon season, leaving law enforcement on high alert as traffickers seek to cash in.
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India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly bad in western and southern states which received less than normal rainfall in the 2018 monsoon season.
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Expectations for a good monsoon season and also low carry-over stocks are expected to support India's import demand, but India's potash subsidy reduction may be a challenge for demand growth, it said.
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Wet weather in Europe dampened ice-cream sales following two straight seasons of hot summers, while growth in India slowed again as a late monsoon season and lower food inflation weakened rural demand.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Summer thunderstorms in the run-up to the monsoon season killed at least 24 people and injured about a dozen in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said on Monday.
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Most of the country is fewer than five metres above sea level; monsoon season lasts for four months, and it brings 80% of the annual rainfall (between 2,000 and 20203,000 millimetres on average).
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Asia's third-largest economy ended June — the first month of the monsoon season — with total rainfall 33% below its 50-year average, according to Citi, which cited data from the India Meteorological Department.
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India could emerge unscathed from the El Nino weather pattern as it is expected to set in only during the latter part of the four-month monsoon season, Ramesh told Reuters last month.
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But government irrigation officials say they don't want to release the waters – and the next wave of heavy rains is expected only in mid-November, with the onset of the Northeast monsoon season.
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Hundreds of people die each year in India of encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease common during the monsoon season, and no medical official directly linked the recent deaths to a lack of oxygen.
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Mro leader Khamchang Mro said his community now realized the importance of forests, which act as a sponge to collect rainfall during the monsoon season and release it slowly into streams and rivers.
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Specifically, he didn't mention: Despite this year's historically destructive summer of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and a devastating monsoon season in South Asia, Trump didn't touch the subject of global warming.
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Still, maintaining these spaces is a continuous challenge in a city where the mould-inducing monsoon season takes up half the year and few households have the resources for expensive brickwork cleaning treatments.
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Among concerns voiced by residents of Guraidhoo are a monsoon season that has become more erratic and intense, and degradation of the reef system, which acts as a natural buffer against rising seas.
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The agency has accurately forecast the monsoon season only once in every five years in the last two decades, even after allowing for a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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Influenza normally spreads in Myanmar during the annual monsoon season from May to October, but an outbreak of swine flu, formally known as A(H1N1), has not been reported in the country since 2009.
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Demand for Basra, however, is likely to temporarily soften during the current monsoon season in India, when road construction slows and Namdeo said refineries could switch to competing grades like Murban and Arab Light.
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The rhythms of life here in Siem Pang, Cambodia, are tightly bound to this sleepy, brown tributary of the Mekong, which swells annually during the monsoon season, then gently spills its banks in October.
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Rising sea levels and the inability of existing infrastructure to cope with excess water during the monsoon season have resulted in regular flooding in Jakarta, which is home to more than 10 million people.
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Alternative rescue plans include stocking the cave with supplies and an oxygen line to keep the boys alive for months until Thailand's monsoon season ends, or drilling a shaft down from the forest above.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues said on Tuesday that the coming monsoon season could bring "enormous deaths" as refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh are not built to withstand the storms.
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Monsoon season has been slow to progress across India this year, running about two weeks behind schedule and more than 30% below expected rainfall since June 1 nationwide, according to data analyzed by CNN Weather.
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Macquarie analysts say the disruption from the Philippines to the global market may be capped at between 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of nickel ore given the upcoming monsoon season which limits mining and shipments there.
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There is a 47 percent chance of India recording below average rainfall during the second half of the monsoon season which stretches between June to September, India's weather office said in a statement on Friday.
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It was the tail end of the monsoon season here and his guess was that the GPS that is supposed to track his location and match it to the nearest commuter was off its game.
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SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA — For decades, archaeologists here kept their eyes on the ground as they tramped through thick jungle, rice paddies and buffalo grazing fields, emerald green and soft with mud during the monsoon season.
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India's fuel demand typically rises in the quarter to December due to festivals and a pick-up in construction activity after the monsoon season, M.K. Surana, chairman of state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp told Reuters.
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Related: Satellite images show rain forecast in Chiang Rai Thailand's monsoon season runs from July to October and, while the past few days have been relatively dry, the long term forecast is rain for months.
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That means an image of, say, India during monsoon season will go from looking like "a huge blob" of continuous thunderstorms to showing thousands of individual storms and the gaps between them, Mr. Clayton said.
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A number of factors — including urbanization, drained soil moisture, delayed onset of the summer monsoon season, and the increased odds of hotter and longer-lasting heat events — have contributed to the region's recent heat waves.
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More than a thousand residents have been forced to evacuate and some public services have been suspended in Mumbai, India's financial capital, which is experiencing the worst monsoon season it has seen in over a decade.
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An Indian government official familiar with the matter said release of water was a "routine exercise" during the monsoon season, and that the amounts involved did not require disclosure under the treaty between the two countries.
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The regions that have received less rainfall so far in the current monsoon season, such as Marathwada and Vidarbha in central India, are likely to get lower-than-normal monsoon rains in the fortnight ending Aug.
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"During the monsoon season in India we will be probably transitioning into El Nino, so I don't think there will be huge impact but we are showing a little bit of drier influence," Tapley told Reuters.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of colorfully dressed rowers competed in dragon boat races in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Thursday, the first day of the annual Water Festival marking the end of the monsoon season.
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Pre-monsoon showers have already hit certain dry areas in the southern part of the country, he said, bringing much needed relief to farmers ahead of the start of the four-month monsoon season beginning June.
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They began to seek out herders who bring cattle or sheep onto the plateaus after the monsoon season when the sparse vegetation of the hot months gives way to a burst of lush grass and flowers.
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Cane planting was hit by dry spell at the beginning of the monsoon season in June and then because of excessive rainfall in August, said B.B. Thombare, president of the Western India Sugar Mills Association (WISMA).
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A cabinet order on Thursday directed officials to have the refugees transferred to Thengar Char, an island in the Bay of Bengal that is lashed by high tides year-round and submerged during the monsoon season.
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The monsoon season is an important period as it can boost output for India's agriculture sector, which consultancy IHS Markit said accounts for around 14% of the country's $2.7 trillion economy and 42% of total employment.
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Macquarie said in a note that disruption from the Philippines to the global market could be capped at between 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of nickel ore, given the upcoming monsoon season which limits mining and shipments.
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A normal, or average, monsoon means rainfall between 96% and 104% of a 50-year average of 89 cm (35 inches) during the four-month monsoon season from June to September, according to the IMD's classification.
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The vessel will be the second to arrive in Malaysia this month as the Rohingya flee Myanmar's Rakhine state before the onset of the monsoon season in May brings storms at sea that could endanger their lives.
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The RBI said it expected India's growth momentum to quicken, with a normal monsoon season expected to raise agricultural growth and rural demand, while plans to raise government employee salaries would provide stimulus to urban consumption spending.
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Yusen Hardiman, the head of the region's environmental department, said the collected trash was largely generated elsewhere and flowed to the islands after being swept up in rivers during the monsoon season, according to Agence France-Presse.
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The El Nino had also affected the monsoon season in India last year, resulting in one of the lowest rainfalls in the last few years and causing the severe heat wave across north India in the summer months.
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"Overall, the country is expected to have well distributed rainfall scenario during the 2019 monsoon season, which will be beneficial to farmers in the country during the ensuing Kharif (summer-planting) season," the IMD said in its forecast.
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A normal, or average, monsoon means rainfall between 25% and 22017% of a 22008-year average of 22018 cm (913 inches) in total during the four-month monsoon season from June to September, according to the IMD's classification.
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Being a snake catcher in Thailand during monsoon season doesn't seem like an experience that would appeal to many, but Soe Zeya Tun manages to capture the thrill of the hunt in her visual profile of Pinyo Pukpinyo.
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The visit puts a global spotlight back on the crisis amid warnings by the United Nations, aid groups and Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues that the coming monsoon season would likely worsen the humanitarian situation.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The threat of wildfire in the American Southwest has been significantly dampened by the monsoon season, but national fire and climatology experts said Wednesday the region is still grappling with the long-term effects of drought.
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Because a yearly stretch of bad weather begins in June, large-scale rebuilding is unlikely to begin before early 236, consigning families to a second monsoon season and a second winter in leaky shelters made of zinc sheeting.
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A normal, or average, monsoon means rainfall between 25% and 22017% of a 22008-year average of 22018 cm (913 inches) in total during the four-month monsoon season from June to September, according to the IMD's classification.
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Buildings often collapse during monsoon season in India, and five inches of rain had fallen in Mumbai on Tuesday, leaving streets in the area flooded and weakening the foundations of thousands of century-old buildings in the city.
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It is a normal day on a school boat project which aims to keep students in classes during monsoon season - and teach them about a changing climate in a country facing increasingly devastating floods fueled by global warming.
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Rainfall during the monsoon season is expected to be 100 percent of the long-term average, a private weather forecasting agency said earlier in the day, raising prospects of higher farm and economic growth in the $2 trillion economy.
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According to the New York Times, the boys apologized to their families for sneaking off into the caves, which is known to be very dangerous during the monsoon season: They wanted to say that they were very, very sorry.
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The most significant near-term risks to India's inflation outlook stem from a potential uptick in global energy prices and the impact of the monsoon season on food prices, said Rajiv Biswas, Asia Pacific chief economist at IHS Markit.
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In Lizzie Vieh's grim comedy "Monsoon Season," produced by All for One Theater at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Danny (Richard Thieriot) and Julia (Therese Plaehn), are a recently separated couple, scrambling for subsistence in a rain-soaked, cactus-strewn Phoenix.
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A paper published in Nature Climate Change in 2014 by researchers at Stanford states that the intensity of extremely wet spells and the frequency of extremely dry spells during the South Asian monsoon season have been increasing since 1980.
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Overall, India has received 17% less rain than average since the monsoon season began on June 1, but in some states such as Gujarat, the biggest producer of cotton and groundnut, the rainfall deficit is as high as 42%.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - An eight-year-old girl was killed on Friday in a landslide at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, the first of what aid agencies expect will be hundreds of casualties during the monsoon season.
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The island is about 30,000 hectares (about 74,000 acres) in size, more than 37 miles from the mainland, officially uninhabited and mostly flooded during heavy rain or monsoon season, District Forest Officer Amir Hossain Chowdhury told CNN in January.
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While authorities would prefer to wait until the monsoon season is over in October and the water in the cave can dissipate, rescuers may not have that luxury with more heavy rainfall expected to hit the area this weekend.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Conditions in crowded camps in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh have deteriorated for nearly 700,000 Rohingya as aid workers race to strengthen shelters ahead of monsoon season, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.
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Around 1,000 people are currently involved in the rescue operation, and will only make an attempt this weekend, which expects to see more heavy rain as monsoon season continues, "if the risk to their lives was minimal," CNN adds.
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The problem is that while the benefits of solar geoengineering are potentially large (slowing global warming), so are the potential consequences, such as the possible disruption of the monsoon season in Asia and the depletion of the ozone layer.
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Hers is a dilemma repeated over and over for many of the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in ramshackle huts across this unsteady landscape: With the long-dreaded monsoon season now upon them, they have run out of places to run.
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As the southwestern coastal state's chief minister sought military reinforcements to boost rescue efforts, a disaster management official said that, since the monsoon season started about three months ago, more than 320 people had died due to flooding and landslides.
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Meanwhile, buying momentum from late last week, after the country's weatherman forecast average rainfall during the final two months of the crucial monsoon season, continued on Monday with Hero MotoCorp and Maruti Suzuku India gaining more than one percent each.
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The falling growth combined with an expected drop in inflation, due to a healthy monsoon season and declining food prices, should motivate the central bank to cut interest rates by 25 basis points at its scheduled meeting next week, Syed said.
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The monsoon season now under way can bring fierce squalls and high seas in southern Thailand, especially off its west coast, and questions have been raised about why the boat had set out to sea despite warnings of bad weather.
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And with the torrential rains of the monsoon season approaching, along with the threat of cyclones and floods, the fate of tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh looks as precarious as their makeshift shelters.
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And then there's the remarkable coincidence of the find itself: the purple frog lives underground all year, only emerging for about two weeks during the monsoon season to lay thousands of eggs in the rock pools that form after the rains.
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Over one in five districts in the country received deficient rainfall this season, and places like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar received insufficient rain for the large part of monsoon season and then were bombarded in the second half of September.
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Nickel ore imports from the Philippines shrank almost 22016 percent in the first six months of 22015, although this was more to do with a particularly stormy monsoon season than the new government's drive to clean up its mining sector.
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Some of that slowdown, the researchers noted, can be explained by weaker economic growth and an unexpectedly strong monsoon season that allowed the country to generate more electricity from its emissions-free hydroelectric dams and less from its coal plants.
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Pentagon officials are also hoping the summit will yield an agreement on further returns of US military remains from the Korean War, according to defense officials, an issue that is time sensitive because monsoon season could delay or postpone repatriation efforts.
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Given the complexities of rescuing the boys, some of whom can't swim, other options include laying an oxygen line to keep them alive during Thailand's monsoon season, which could last for months, or drilling a shaft down into the cavern.
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The monsoon season rains arrived a week late this month, by which time reservoirs had dried up in many places, and economists say inflation could pick up in coming months if any shortfall in rains causes a spike in food prices.
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The 12 teen boys and their coach were found alive Monday in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system in Northern Thailand, but rescue efforts have been thwarted by the region's monsoon season, and it could take months to retrieve the group.
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The usual pressure on food prices going into the monsoon season pushed inflation up to 5.77 percent in June, near a two-year high and uncomfortably close to the top of the target range, reducing chances of Rajan delivering one last rate cut.
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Monsoon season delivers about 953 percent of India's annual rainfall and is key to the success of the farm sector, which accounts for about 15 percent of India's $2 trillion economy but sustains nearly two thirds of the country's 1.3 billion people.
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By scraping together his own funds he bought a motorcycle, threw his possessions into a backpack and headed out to the jungles of the Western Ghats where he would live for months at a time during the monsoon season documenting frog life.
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Dengue is common in South Asia, especially during the monsoon season which runs from June to September, and there is no specific treatment, but with early detection and access to proper medical care fewer than 1% of sufferers die from the disease.
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NEW DELHI, Sept 20113 (Reuters) - Rainfall in India's annual monsoon season was below average and less than forecast, with some crop-growing central and northern states receiving less rain than needed, the national weather office said on Saturday as the rainy season ended.
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After a third consecutive deficient monsoon season, the government of the Beed district has established as a temporary measure 264 of these camps — long a fixture of drought relief efforts in Maharashtra State — after surveys predicted a shortage of fodder for the animals.
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That's the reason I find it bemusing that not only are chatbot developers springing up like mushrooms in the monsoon season, but businesses are also actually eager to avail of their services sans any credible evidence of a real user need for them.
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The 2019 monsoon season got off to a bleak start with the driest June in five years and below-average precipitation in July, suggesting an initial prediction for lower than normal rainfall from the country's only private forecaster, Skymet, could come to pass.
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Quezon City, the Philippines (CNN)It's monsoon season in the Philippines and in a ramshackle neighborhood in Quezon City, near Manila, a sudden downpour has left gray puddles in the rutted streets and fat, dirty drops of rainwater steadily dripping from corrugated metal roofs.
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Production of other key plantation crops such as tea, coffee and black pepper in Kerala have also been severely hit, with the state having received about 30 percent more rain than it typically gets since the start of the monsoon season in late May.
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The three-month, pre-monsoon season, which ended on May 31, was the second driest in the last 65 years, India's only private forecaster, Skymet, said, with a national average of 99 mm of rain against the normal average of 131.5 mm for the season.
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However, there was still a "real willingness between navies and nations to co-operate" despite tighter assets available, Cantrill said, adding that the coming weeks following the monsoon season would be crucial as attacking vessels becomes easier due to better weather conditions at sea.
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KALAMB, India, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Heavy rains in October and November have brought more misery to India's farmers, after summer-sown crops such as soybean, cotton, rice and vegetables suffered rain and flood damage during the wettest June-September monsoon season in 215 years.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will receive normal rainfall over the 2016 monsoon season, not surplus as previously expected, with the chances of a La Nina weather pattern emerging over the period seen as unlikely, three senior officials at state-run weather department said.
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The monsoon season - which accounts for 70% of India's annual rainfall and is the lifeblood of its $2.5 trillion economy - has delivered 28% lower-than-normal rainfall since the start of the season on June 1, according to data compiled by the India Meteorological Department.
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Rainfall in the state during the June-September monsoon season has been more than 40 percent higher than normal, with torrential rain in the last 10 days forcing authorities to release water from dozens of dangerously full dams, sending surges into rivers that then overflowed their banks.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — At least 37 people were killed in landslides and flash floods and hundreds of thousands were displaced, Sri Lankan officials said on Wednesday, as torrential rains and gusting winds continued to lash the country just days after the beginning of the monsoon season.
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This was my internal dialogue as I stood in REI and a salesperson directed me to a rack of wool socks, suggesting I purchase them for a summer trip in Southeast Asia, where summer is monsoon season with forecasts that are undeniably hot, sticky, and humid.
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Last year, some officials expressed support for a plan to move thousands of refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal that is inundated with water during monsoon season, a notion that was met with anger by the United Nations and then quietly shelved.
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"With the prospect of boat movements increasing following the end of the monsoon season, it is increasingly urgent for the authorities to take measures to address the root causes of displacement...and create conditions which foster social cohesion and economic opportunities for all communities," the spokeswoman said.
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Storm metaphors were popular at the time given that the World Cup took place in the monsoon season – another major gripe ahead of the tournament which dissipated as things got underway – but also because of the thunderous criticism which came about as a result of South Korea's success.
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It hardly seems like the site of a two-week-long, 153,000-person rescue operation that would pit the resolve of at least one government against the near-constant rain of the country's monsoon season, in a contest to save the Wild Boars, a local boys soccer team.
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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) told Reuters late on Tuesday that the June-September monsoon season - critical for the half of the country's farmland that is not irrigated - was likely to bring more rain than its previous forecast as concerns over the El Nino weather condition had eased.
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"It's a little early to talk about the monsoon season, but there are indications that the current La Nina condition will turn into a neutral phase toward the end of the season," said Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, the leading scientist at India's Ministry of Earth Sciences, which oversees the country's meteorological department.
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CreditCreditUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The world's largest refugee camp, a temporary home to more than half a million people that sprawls precariously across barren hills in southeastern Bangladesh, faces a looming disaster as early as April when the first storms of the monsoon season hit, aid workers warn.
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I tell stories on social media to inform our donors and supporters about the bridges we are building to reach more refugees with food, about children who are undernourished and how we are treating them, about making the ground safe in the camps in advance of cyclone and monsoon season.
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She also pointed out several other obstacles to the RBI's medium-term inflation target: higher aggregate demand next year due to a normal monsoon, salary increases from the Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations and steady-to-higher food prices from structural inadequacies caused by uneven rainfall throughout the country during the monsoon season.
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" It said girls repeatedly reported that access to clean water was one of the major challenges that they faced in the camps and warned that "as the monsoon season approaches, the temporary shelters will become untenable and the likely destruction of the makeshift sanitation facilities threatens to contaminate water and spread disease.
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Authorities had originally suggested the safest strategy for the stricken team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach, would be to keep them in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex until the monsoon season had passed in October and water levels had subsided enough for them to walk out.
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It's the middle of monsoon season here in South Florida, which means that Mr. Patel's two-acre property — which produces about 15 percent of the produce for his restaurant, Ghee Indian Kitchen, a half-hour north in greater Miami — is besieged by mosquitoes, rain and humidity so intense that you can't grow tomatoes past April.
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For the series he calls "Rain Studies," Kallat uses watercolor pencil to mark paper with a dark circle, then takes the drawing outside in the rain during monsoon season, which usually lasts for three to four months in Mumbai, leaving the work exposed to the elements, the splotches of rain making starlike dots on the dark circle.
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But of course, not all the Dispatches fit into a neat category, and some of the best are totally sui generis, like this wonderful perspective on the role the baobab tree plays in West Africa; this funny, sad and unforgettable essay on the monsoon season in India; and a harrowing look (with can't-look-away photography) at a Manila jail.
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BORDER WALL MAY NEED OPEN GATES: "Trump's border wall probably will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open for months every summer during 'monsoon season' in the desert, according to U.S. border officials, agents and engineers familiar with the plans," our colleague Nick Miroff reports.
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