It was the rainy season, and the contestants were miserable.
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Authorities estimate the rainy season could last another two weeks.
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The rainy season is considered June through September, Guy said.
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This year, however, the rainy season lasted longer than usual.
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California's rainy season wasn't supposed to play out like this.
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But a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them.
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Cape Town's winter rainy season runs from May to August.
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Sierra Leone is not yet halfway through its rainy season.
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Flooding was possible until April, when the rainy season ends.
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Abundant downpours during the rainy season bring deadly floods every year.
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It was November, Rwanda's rainy season, and the ground was muddy.
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Flooding in Thailand usually occurs during the May-November rainy season.
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California's multiyear drought ended in April after a heavy rainy season.
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Typically, outbreaks occur during the rainy season, between November and March.
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The fires last year only ended when the rainy season arrived.
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The rainy season has become shorter, marked by more frequent droughts.
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Note: The falls are known to swell during the rainy season.
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Because it is the rainy season, heavy equipment was bogged down.
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I'd landed on the first day of a delayed rainy season.
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This is the rainy season, the winter rainy season in Hue, and so the skies were heavily overcast, and a misty rain fell through most of that month, so visibility from the air was next to impossible.
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He also expressed concerns the coming rainy season could harm vulnerable people.
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Cases peak in countries like India and Bangladesh during the rainy season.
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IT IS the rainy season in Caracas and the reservoirs are full.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season.
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"It's lucky the hurricane season is also the rainy season," he said.
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The rainy season once brought daily showers of three to four hours.
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Authorities warned flooding was possible until April, when the rainy season ends.
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Why would I choose to visit Sri Lanka now, during rainy season?
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Thailand is in the middle of its rainy season when caves can flood.
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According to the WHO, some areas also become inaccessible during the rainy season.
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Rainy season, when mosquito populations soar, is April through September in the Keys.
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Densely populated Bangladesh is battered by storms, floods and landslides every rainy season.
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The rainy season wore down some of the impact furrows, softened its shape.
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Now water no longer floods her home during the rainy season, she said.
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Flooding is not unusual in the region, which is experiencing its rainy season.
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The current rainy season has already caused havoc in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.
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Summer temperatures are in the mid 80s, and summer is also rainy season.
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With a new rainy season within sight, should California brace for a rerun?
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And during the country's long rainy season, terrestrial delivery isn't always an option.
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The rainy season used to always begin in June and run to October.
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A normal rainy season fills Lake Gatun to 2500 metres above sea level.
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IN COSTA RICA'S rainy season, bright mornings yield with deceptive suddenness to tropical downpours.
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Typical of Hong Kong's rainy season, the downpour forced the event to be canceled.
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He said October was towards the end of rainy season, which starts next month.
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And now the rainy season had come to put an end to their work.
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The rainy season is only halfway through and more downpours are expected in August.
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The rainy season that usually starts in September 2015 didn't begin until February 2016.
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With little rain in the rainy season, California may be headed for another drought.
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The Indonesian island has been inundated with plastic waste during the annual rainy season.
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Storms seem stronger and hit beyond the regular rainy season from December to April.
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In May, it prevented farmers from planting a new crop before the rainy season.
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That could take months, however, given that Thailand&aposs rainy season typically lasts through October.
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Despite the onset of the rainy season in December, many districts are still rationing water.
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February should be the heart of California's rainy season — but this month, there's no rain.
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I've never been to Panama, but apparently its rainy season runs from May to December.
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Rainy season downpours are expected to become heavy in the coming weeks, aiding crops further.
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It' the rainy season during the summer, but pack a poncho and you'll be fine.
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The official television broadcaster on Monday warned of further damage in the upcoming rainy season.
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And now, only a few miles short, Nigeria's rainy season forced a change of plan.
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The travel was especially difficult because this is the rainy season in the Naga region.
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A pair of fully waterproof, durable, and comfortable boots is a must during rainy season.
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MANHASSET "Birding Eastern Panama in the 'Rainy' Season," hosted by the North Shore Audubon Society.
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This rainy season has been unusually destructive, with more than 40 killed and thousands displaced.
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Some also predict more, potentially even worse, floods once the rainy season begins in March.
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The rainy season is expected to begin in full by the end of the month.
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"It is particularly dangerous in the rainy season when there are floods," says Mr Gérard.
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The rainy season was ending, but the air was still stewy when Election Day dawned.
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"The timing and total rainfall of the rainy season really matter for agriculture," said Marvel.
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He survived 21 days naked in Thailand during the miserable rainy season with partner Lindsay Boisclair.
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With the rainy season in full swing, the outlook for containing a waterborne disease is grim.
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Weeks of rain have caused rivers to swell since the rainy season began in early March.
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With the rainy season beginning and lasting through May, Sinop Energia is running out of time.
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Further concerns stem from the possibility that El Niño will also affect Ethiopia's next rainy season.
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With Brazil's rainy season underway, authorities are scrambling to fight the seasonal surge in mosquito populations.
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"Imagine how wet it is sleeping on the floor during the rainy season," Dahl said, outside.
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Residents successfully limited their water use enough to make it to the next rainy season, however.
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Residents successfully limited their water use enough to make it to the next rainy season, however.
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Alas, it was the beginning of the city's rainy season, so I decided to work instead.
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California's rainy season was one of the wettest on record, and followed a six-year drought.
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Leaving them underground until the end of the rainy season, he said, "is not an option."
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Aid workers must use motorbikes to navigate cratered dirt roads that flood during the rainy season.
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The rainy season here has been starting later in recent years, and the downpours are fewer.
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They have a single pitch which often fills with large puddles during Kenya's long rainy season.
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FAO has already distributed seeds to some 120,000 farmers to grow crops during the rainy season.
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Access to pasture and water will worsen until the rainy season begins in March, FAO said.
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Nigeria suffers from flooding almost annually during its rainy season, which lasts from July to September.
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It arrived at the peak of summer, right as the rainy season was beginning, Ballard said.
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Health experts fear when the rainy season comes in November they will become havens for disease.
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Typically, the rainy season starts around June or July, and that will also increase the risk.
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The annual rainy season has brought 10 times more rainfall than usual to areas of Peru.
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Shifting rainfall patterns, often linked to climate change, have shortened the rainy season in many countries worldwide.
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Although Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has extended the traditional rainy-season ceasefire, neither side is budging.
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The rainy season is just beginning in many parts of Colombia, raising the risk of future catastrophes.
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"A new rainy season is approaching fast, promising new outbreaks as well as complicated logistics," Liu said.
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So this may be just be a dry start to an average (or above-average) rainy season.
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The rainy season can bring sudden, heavy showers over the Andaman Sea, where the plane was lost.
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The rainy season has spread disease in densely populated camps where many people live in unsanitary conditions.
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Dengue outbreaks used to happen only during the rainy season, which lasted a few months a year.
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During the rainy season, someone had to hold an umbrella over the proceedings, because the ceiling leaked.
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A poor rainy season has led to extensive drought across East Africa, destroying crops and killing livestock.
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Summer is rainy season, but the rain usually starts in the morning and lasts a short time.
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That could take as long as months, however, given that Thailand's rainy season typically lasts through October.
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The dry season is from January to June, and the rainy season is from July to December.
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There were few guests during the rainy season, so Noon and I each had our own rooms.
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The rainy season has historically caused damage, but researchers have linked climate change to the severe storms.
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Better yet, throw the sprinkler away entirely—and wait for the rainy season to start up again.
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"It's been a very active winter and rainy season for the entire state of California," Burke said.
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Heavy downpours hit the tropical Southeast Asian country during the May-October rainy season, often triggering flooding.
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We'll be back before the rainy season ends, in order to have rations for the whole year.
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It was the rainy season in Pakistan last month leading to these games, reducing opportunities to practice.
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The onset of the Philippine rainy season may also halt shipments to China over the coming months.
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In a statement, the stadium operators blamed the long rainy season and the high number of events.
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Daisy Quiroz, 71, a retired maid, lives in a house that regularly floods in the rainy season.
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Next year's Olympics are timed for the hottest days of the summer, immediately after the rainy season.
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Winter is usually the rainy season in California, but these last two months have been anything but.
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The next rainy season is likely to bring more below-average rainfall across the region, experts predict.
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While such cleanup occurs before every rainy season, the scale of the Thomas Fire increased the intensity.
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The rainy season hits during these lean months, too, turning many roads into rivers of impassable mud.
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The village regularly floods, especially during the rainy season, when even the solitary concrete road becomes submerged.
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Another facility has one pit latrine that spills sewage onto the healthcare compound during the rainy season.
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The makeshift shafts and tunnels can easily collapse in the rainy season when the ground is soft.
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Nigeria's rainy season usually lasts from July to September, and the country suffers from flooding almost annually.
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The main rainy season lasts from late March to early June, with shorter rains in October and November.
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The board also plans to review the rules again in May at the end of the rainy season.
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That could take as long as months, however, given that Thailand&aposs rainy season typically lasts through October.
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Rather, they wait for the region's rainy season to end, then spend three days celebrating with their families.
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The appearance of one particular type of stork - known as shuramurove - foretold a good rainy season, for instance.
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Another villager, Sut Thoeun, 41, said the water began to rise quickly during the rainy season in December.
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Efforts to contract the repair of the dam are proving difficult and the rainy season is fast approaching.
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An added bonus: It's the driest part of the country, which we'd be visiting during the rainy season.
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The monsoon's arrival in Thiruvananthapuram at the beginning of June marks the official beginning of India's rainy season.
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The drones started flying just as Rwanda entered its rainy season, which typically complicates ground deliveries even more.
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It seems likely that this is an adaption to yearly rainy season/dry season cycles in the Amazon.
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I had to attend a wedding for a childhood friend during the rainy season in Nosara, Costa Rica.
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During March and April, the rainy season ramps up with moisture moving in from the Amazon River Valley.
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Artisanal mining is common across west and central Africa and accidents are frequent, particularly in the rainy season.
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Still, with the rainy season ongoing, many worry that more hurricanes could hit before it ends in November.
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The early rainy season downpours have forced hundreds of people from their homes across the Indian Ocean island.
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He put the death toll from floods and landslides since the start of the rainy season at 324.
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Reducing water in the rainy season produces smaller floodplains with less sediment deposited in them, impoverishing the soil.
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Two harvests ago in February, some 2,000 trucks were stranded along the BR-163 in the rainy season.
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For Nigeriens unable to afford cement homes, each rainy season increasingly brings a dangerous ordeal, local experts say.
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The area has no paved roads and its muddy paths often turn into swamps in the rainy season.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in its rainy season and downpours are expected until at least July.
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The deepening crisis is largely due to another disappointing rainy season, the third since early 2016, UNICEF said.
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How many words do you need for the rainy season, fighting, the heat, humidity and the smell, fear?
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President Xi Jinping warned other areas to be on guard for signs of danger during the rainy season.
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This is compounded by a persistent risk of drought, flooding during rainy season, and the spread of cholera.
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The early rainy-season downpours forced many families from their homes, displacing over 270,000 people across the country.
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" As long as anyone could remember, he says, the rainy season "started in June and lasted until October.
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But with the end of a rainy season that had limited mobility, Boko Haram has regained a foothold.
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The town is surrounded by wet green rice fields that during the rainy season are infested with mosquitoes.
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Kenya is East Africa's richest economy and is enjoying an extended rainy season after several years of drought.
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Stifling heat and humidity aside, off-season also overlaps with hurricane season, the rainy season and mosquito season.
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But crossings in over-crowded boats can be treacherous, especially in the rainy season, which is beginning now.
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I went during Panama's rainy season, too, and it's like the sky is going to fall down on you.
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"Weddings, for example, will only happen in the rainy season, when animals are healthy and well fed," he explained.
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The other option would be to wait out the rainy season -- which typically ends in October -- inside the cave.
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This could take anywhere from days to weeks to even months as the rainy season typically lasts through October.
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The state's waters have also experienced harmful blue-green algae blooms, aided by a heavy rainy season last spring.
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The prime season for crabbing is as soon as the rainy season is over, usually from December to August.
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During the rainy season, each of the thousands of plants needs to be harvested every seven to ten days.
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At the time, conditions turned around with the help of humanitarian aid and the return of the rainy season.
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It is the rainy season in Nairobi, and rain has soaked the city for much of the past week.
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It wasn't the first landslide this summer, or even this week, as the rainy season sweeps across southern China.
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While such cleanup occurs before every rainy season, the scale of the Thomas Fire has cranked up the intensity.
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The annual rainy season, which arrived in the second half of June, has hit southern Hunan province the most.
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For one thing, the situation is not as dire as a year ago after a relatively normal rainy season.
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More flooding is expected in the coming months, until the rainy season comes to an end around early October.
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The mother of three said that the creek outside her home would flood during the rainy season each spring.
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From now until March, when the rainy season begins, the organization said the situation is expected to continue deteriorating.
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Flooding and mudslides are common during the rainy season in Uganda's mountainous regions, where the latest incident has occurred.
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However, doctors agree that a new wave of infections is likely in March, when the country's rainy season returns.
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Voters braved the floods and landslides of the rainy season to cast their ballots in a massive exercise of democracy.
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With the rainy season coming soon, the focus will also be on setting up shelters, delivering supplies, and providing food.
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And the impending rainy season will make reaching vulnerable people even more difficult, as rivers flood and roads become impassable.
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As the rainy season brings flooding to Southeast Asia, critters and snakes head for higher ground as their nests flood.
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"Basically, the rainy season is occurring, pretty much as scheduled," said David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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The early rainy season downpours have forced many families from their homes and affected over 415,618 people across the nation.
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The world's top cocoa grower is now in its rainy season and heavy downpours are expected over the coming weeks.
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These ecosystems absorb water in the rainy season and slowly release it into streams and rivers during the dry season.
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The giant desert dunes get filled with water during the rainy season, turning into hundreds of super warm freshwater pools.
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"They may have to cut rations instead of scaling up as they should ahead of the rainy season," he said.
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The drought may worsen as predictions for Somalia's main 'Gu' rainy season, from March to June, are poor, it said.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season, which runs from mid March to late October.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season, which runs from mid-March to late October.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season, which runs from mid March to late October.
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Thailand's main rice-growing season begins in May, the start of the rainy season, for harvest between August and October.
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And during the rainy season, when water sluices through poor neighborhoods, many shoddily constructed buildings have collapsed because of erosion.
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Since it was rainy season in Senegal, we were not able to collect data in all of the 21 sites.
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Suicide bombings and gun attacks have increased in the region since the end of the rainy season late last year.
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China will take steps to ensure sugar reserves are safe during the rainy season, the Sugar Reserve Management Centre said.
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Still, Wu was lucky enough to find a standing puddle large enough to capture the rainy-season mirror effect, too.
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The landscape turns green after a short rainy season, and then the leaves fall, and the landscape grows desolate again.
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Canal operators try to store enough water in the rainy season to operate the canal fully during the dry season.
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The rainy season typically starts in October and lasts through April, with the heaviest rain coming from December through March.
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The town, which can be reached only by boat or plane during the rainy season, is a world unto itself.
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The rainy season in the Amazon on average begins in late September and takes weeks to build to widespread rains.
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"The market is expecting new supply after the end of the rainy season this month," another Bangkok-based trader said.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season, which runs from mid-March to late October.
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It was one of those hot days before the rainy season would come and unleash showers across the Nigerian landscape.
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The hope is that Day Zero will continue to get pushed back and that the rainy season will come soon.
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During rainy season, when the roads are typically washed away, more women give birth at home, miles away from help.
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The spread of yellow fever coincided with the rainy season which also brought about the usual uptick in diseases like malaria.
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Rainy season could last 2 more weeks Amateur video showed one woman's dramatic escape in Punta Hermosa, a suburb of Lima.
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The denuded land in the wake of the flames could now face mudslides as the rainy season picks up, for example.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is entering the rainy season, which runs officially from mid-March to late October.
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Many of the new arrivals are hungry and sick, without shelter or clean water in the middle of the rainy season.
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"The rainy season is starting, so we need to use the window of opportunity to start a vaccination campaign," he said.
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In the rainy season, lakes and marshes have drenched its more than 1,500 square miles, sustaining deer, flamingos and even leopards.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is now in the rainy season, which runs from mid-March to late October.
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Few of them believe the government's assurances that construction will get going in earnest before the rainy season starts in June.
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Then, clients received payouts after a drought, at the end of a failed rainy season, to help them replace their assets.
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India typically sees a rise in forest fires as temperatures rise from mid-March until the rainy season begins in June.
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ANTANANARIVO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Madagascar is suffering a third consecutive year of drought and its poorest rainy season in 35 years.
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Mr. Migoya, 43, was born and raised in Mexico City, where piles of huitlacoche filled the markets during the rainy season.
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Visitors are advised not to enter the cave during the rainy season because it is known to be prone to flooding.
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But the March to May rainy season, known as the Gu', again failed, leaving Somaliland teetering on the brink of catastrophe.
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Last month, Cale reissued "Fragments of a Rainy Season," a live album recorded at various stops on a 21919 world tour.
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The alleys leading to the center would flood in the rainy season, while insecurity forced traders to shut up shop early.
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In the past, most of the dirt roads got muddy in the rainy season, meaning he could not find any passengers.
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It was late May; the start of the rainy season when the city's waste flows down the mountain into the bay.
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The cave complex extends several kilometers (miles) with narrow passageways and uneven ground and is known to flood severely in rainy season.
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The wet weather has continued in the area, which is in the middle of its rainy season, since the July 11 incident.
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They might have to stay in the cave until floodwaters recede at the end of the rainy season in about four months.
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Whatever the remedial action, the work will need to be completed before the next rainy season begins in just eight months' time.
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Malian farmers work their fields during the rainy season, which lasts from June to October in some parts of the country's south.
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This year, however, a heavy rainy season flushed more pollutants into the water, which gave the algae an extra boost of nutrients.
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During the rainy season, the sand absorbs water, which can then be used in homes and for irrigation in the dry season.
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Hunter: Hunter rain boots (like the Original Short Gloss) are clutch for rainy season, and the liners are the coziest things ever.
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When properly managed, annual rainy season deluges should no longer damage people's assets or force them out of their homes, she added.
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"Basically the rainy season creates many, many, many more breeding spots, which leads to more mosquitoes and more disease transmission," she said.
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The government and NGOs have blamed Nepal's mountainous terrain, the remoteness of the villages and volatile rainy season for the sluggish response.
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A river is a mercurial thing, running deep and fast in the rainy season, and low and slow when the rains fade.
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What they're doing: Farmers are digging wells and the government started construction on a dam to catch and store rainy-season precipitation.
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"At first they told us we could stay until after the rainy season," 19-year-old Tsegaye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The lack of such events during the winter rainy season in the past several years has been a factor in the drought.
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Costa Rica has two seasons: December to April is dry season (high season) and May to November is rainy season (low season).
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Many people prefer rainy season as the rain is short, and rain makes the rain forests and jungles more vibrant and lush.
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The military says the start of the rainy season in a few weeks' time will probably reduce the militants' movement and activity.
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But in the rainy season — in theory from July to November — the complex can fill with water, submerging many of its passageways.
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In February, United Nations agencies began dispatching engineering crews to clear blocked sewage canals at risk of overflowing in the rainy season.
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A small powerhouse is lined with imported inverters and batteries that can store enough energy for electricity, even during the rainy season.
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Now the rainy season had arrived, offering a respite to the jungle and a clearer view of the damage to the world.
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The movement of Day Zero to mid-May offers Capetonians some hope as historically, the rainy season should have arrived by then.
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The rainy season, which runs from December through February, normally only brings less than 2 inches of precipitation during those three months.
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"Some come back to help during the rainy season but in the dry months you won't find any youth here," Magadji said.
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Weeks of rain have caused rivers across the country to rise and people to flee since the rainy season began earlier this month.
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It has meant that we are entering a new rainy season with dam levels considerably higher than they were this time last year.
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But given that Thailand's rainy season can last until October, that plan could take months with complications coming up with rising water levels.
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The island is close to the size of France, and in the rainy season the bush roads turn into impassable rivers of mud.
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MSF called for renewed donor funding ahead of the mid-year rainy season when mosquitoes, which transmit the disease, breed in stagnant water.
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The group has stepped up attacks in the past few weeks as the end of the rainy season facilitates movements in the bush.
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California's rainy season usually wraps up at the end of April, and the 14-day weather outlook suggests that is holding, Boldt said.
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"We are still in the rainy season and must be prepared to respond in the event of further emergencies to come," she said.
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All its household waste flows into a putrid stream which regularly overflows during Rio's rainy season, sending raw sewage into homes and streets.
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In recent weeks parts of Central America have seen erratic rainfall marking the onset of the rainy season, which started a month late.
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Thailand's rainy season usually ends in late November but this year heavy rain has fallen well into what should be the dry season.
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Exports of ore to China always drop at this time of year due to the rainy season, which affects both mining and shipping.
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The outbreak coincides with an early start to Yemen's rainy season, but is also a sign of the war's degradation of public infrastructure.
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Thailand's rainy season usually ends in late November, but this year heavy rain has fallen well into what should be the dry season.
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Even more time could be saved during the rainy season, when many of Rwanda's roads become impassable, says Zipline's co-founder, Will Hetzler.
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During the rainy season, it had collapsed twice, but now it had stopped raining for the winter, and the walls were holding firm.
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Catastrophic fires also damage watersheds, scorch and sterilize land, and increase the likelihood of floods and mudslides in the rainy season after fires.
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During what should be its rainy season, the region instead is witnessing an unprecedented number of hot days, strong winds and low humidity.
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With the rainy season ending and roads becoming passable again, officials are bracing for more ambushes like the one at the river crossing.
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During the rainy season, a group of Chadian soldiers moving toward Lake Chad near Bosso, Niger, became bogged down along mud-clogged roads.
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Each rainy season, the river fills and floods nearby forests and rice paddies before retreating in the dry season to expose fertile soil.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its rainy season, with heavy downpours expected to continue until the end of June.
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In the rainy season, from May to October, tropical downpours turn muddy trickles into rivers, plains to lakes, and dry ground to mud.
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Recent wildfires denuded much of the landscape, leaving the terrain vulnerable to erosion, and unfortunately for Montecito, California's rainy season is just beginning.
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They take elements touched by water from the rainy season that have destroyed homes and lands, and they make something good with them.
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The Ethiopian government is scrambling to control the locusts going into the Belg, a short rainy season which runs from February to May.
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Some were probably in an area that is extremely isolated in the rainy season, even without a major flood event, Professor Baird said.
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The cave complex is off-limits during the rainy season, which usually runs from May to October, when downpours can quickly flood it.
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The drought is expected to last until June, when the rainy season usually begins, costing the country's about 20140.88 billion baht ($21 billion).
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It is the rainy season and much of Barii, a Shabab stronghold for years and home to several Shabab senior commanders, is mud.
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Using his phone he lights the road under his feet, a path of compressed red earth still drying out from the rainy season.
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And these farmers are taking a big gamble, as they will face hardship if their next rainy season doesn't top up their dams.
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The rainy season in the world's top cocoa producer runs from mid-March to late October, but the season has been slow to start.
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The rainy season through April appeared to have held off a spike in deforestation that subsequently came with the dry season starting in May.
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When we speak on WhatsApp, she's on one of her Bangkok trips, where a downpour is ushering in the start of the rainy season.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in the midst of the rainy season, and downpours this month are expected to be heavy and regular.
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The cave, cut into a mountainside near the border with Myanmar, can flood severely during the rainy season, which runs from June to October.
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However, given Thailand's rainy season can last until October, this might take months – and rising water levels could complicate further rescue and supply efforts.
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During the rainy season, when as much as 5 inches might fall, it fills with shallow pools of water that reflect the sky above.
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The rainy season in the world's biggest cocoa producer runs from mid-March to late October, with heavy showers expected to begin this month.
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The rainy season in the world's top cocoa producer runs from mid-March to late October, with heavy showers expected to begin this month.
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The rainy season in the worlds top cocoa producer runs from mid-March to late October, with heavy showers expected to begin this month.
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Harvest lasts from May in northern Madagascar to August in the middle of the country, after the rainy season has brought the usual cyclones.
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Nigeria's largest city and commercial capital has been hit by days of persistent heavy rain and storms at the height of the rainy season.
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Because of the rainy season — which lasts from January through May — "we can expect to see more cases and further geographic spread," she said.
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The company said in January that power supply at its mines - Kalumbila Minerals, Kansanshi, Sentinel - in Zambia improved following arrival of the rainy season.
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) predicts La Nina will last throughout Somalia's October to January short rainy season, known as the Deyr.
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"The wet and warm weather contributed to rising cases of tick-borne diseases as the rainy season progressed into May this year," he said.
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The choice of Senegal was made despite the challenging climatic conditions in August (rainy season), which offered a probability of success of only 210%.
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This past spring, Boudouma men started heading back to the islands in the southern basin, to plant millet and maize before the rainy season.
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Indian wheat farmers rely on monsoon rains between July and September to have sufficient soil moisture to plant the crop when rainy season ends.
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In November 2018, the most deadly and destructive wildfire in the state's history — the Camp Fire — started during what is typically the rainy season.
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Mounds of rubbish lie rotting on street corners, a breeding ground for pests such as flies and rats and, in the rainy season, mosquitoes.
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Fewer trees mean the ground is less able to absorb water in the rainy season and gradually surrender it the rest of the year.
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Surawan's reference to four months has been interpreted as a potential sign that authorities are considering waiting until the rainy season ends in October.
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Unusually high amount of rain The amount of rain falling on the region "is very unusual," even during the current rainy season, Osatanakorn said.
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"The rainy season is starting, so we need to use the window of opportunity to start a vaccination campaign," he said at the time.
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A sign at the entrance to the cave -- a popular tourist attraction -- warns of danger during the rainy season, which is just getting underway.
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Plus, the country is in the midst of one of the world's worst cholera outbreaks, which could be exacerbated by this year's rainy season.
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During the rescue, some Thais said on social media that the soccer team had been reckless in entering the cave during the rainy season.
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Rain shamans are in such heavy demand, especially during the rainy season, that they are a regular expense for anyone planning an outdoor event.
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Meanwhile, Thailand's rainy season is just beginning, and the children on the team are not equipped to dive and swim through the cavernous maze.
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Flash floods were known to be a danger in the cave, and a sign at the entrance warned against entering in the rainy season.
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Mr. Parra sees another emerging threat: In recent years, there have been dry periods during the rainy season, and rain during the dry season.
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The world's most productive rice growers, in Thailand and Vietnam, depend on the Mekong's generosity in depositing rich alluvial soil during the rainy season.
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When the rainy season arrives, it's time for he and his family to work in the fields, 22 kilometres (14 miles) from the camp.
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Alpian Arahman, a palm planter from Indonesia's Bangka Belitung Province off Sumatra island, said the rainy season has yet to arrive at his plantation.
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With no sign of the fires slowing, residents are anxiously waiting for the start of the rainy season, which might not come until October.
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Her shelter is a few blankets and some plastic sheets, big enough to cover her bed, but barely waterproof during the current rainy season.
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My beach plans were derailed by the rainy season and a pair of typhoons that hit elsewhere in the country while I was there.
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However, almost daily downpours over the past month - a period when the rainy season usually tapers off - have left the unpaved roads there impassable.
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Mudslides and floods are fairly common during the rainy season in West Africa, where deforestation and poor town planning has put residents at risk.
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Bravo said nickel miners, many located in the southern Mindanao island, are also expected to halt operations in October due to the rainy season.
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The Wild Boars and their coach entered the cave after their soccer practice on June 23, a week before the rainy season generally begins.
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Another cool morning at the tail end of the rainy season of Los Angeles, and the sun shines on verdant green in the hills.
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The flooding and mudslides, which were made worse by scorched earth from last month's wildfires, came at the very beginning of California's rainy season.
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"We all breathed a sigh of relief when the rainy season started strong in early March," said Lane Bunkers of Catholic Relief Services in Kenya.
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I was worried we were going to be there during rainy season, but the weather was absolutely great, we didn't see a drop of rain.
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Anand Surawan has said the boys could be inside for up to four months until the end of the rainy season, according to the Times.
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Herders use the land in the dry season, with cattle droppings fertilising the soil, while farmers cultivate the same land during rainy season, he said.
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Mobile coverage can be spotty in especially remote areas, and the rainy season makes rural roads particularly difficult to trek and reach women in need.
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Many factors, including the city's geology, the changing climate, and shortfalls in urban planning, contribute to the devastation that rocks Dakar during the rainy season.
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The move to Florida will focus on testing how its myriad sensors hold up during the region's rainy season, as well as to collect data.
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Last week, health officials began a campaign to vaccinate more than 14 million people in Angola and Congo before the rainy season begins next month.
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They wander deeper and deeper into the cave, past signs warning hikers to stay out during the rainy season that was just about to begin.
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They plan is to keep the rule in effect until late June — the start of the region's rainy season, which typically helps improve air quality.
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I arrived in Bangkok in 2004 during the rainy season—which gave me all the more reason to go and take shelter in the gym.
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One Thai naval official raised a terrifying worst-case scenario: leaving them in the cave for four months, until the end of the rainy season.
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At the end of the rainy season in Nigeria, around September, rodent populations peak, having thrived on all the food available in the lush farms.
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Our drive, along a mostly unpaved one-lane road, took more than 15 hours; in the rainy season, our driver said it could surpass 20.
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He has just begun with 22018 fist-size land snails plucked from the forest floor in Ghana in the rainy season, when they are plentiful.
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Dawn brings the discovery that their raft has been taken far off course — they're stranded deep in a swamp that rises during the rainy season.
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If stocks of rice run low during the rainy season, they can be replenished, and dry goods like sugar and packaged crackers will become cheaper.
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The next step depends on what time of year it is — trains don't run directly from Cuzco from January through April during the rainy season.
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This month the board extended water conservation regulations out of fears that the generous precipitation could taper off before the state's winter rainy season ends.
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Some 10,000 have been killed in the war which has triggered a major cholera outbreak that threatens to re-emerge with the ongoing rainy season.
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It also takes us closer to the start of the rainy season -- if the rains finally return to normal patterns after three abnormally dry years.
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West Africa's Niger has also reported widespread flooding that has killed 43 people since the rainy season began in June, including in the capital Niamey.
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Bad weather in Mexico City, which is in its rainy season, temporarily closed the airport on Wednesday, creating chaos and delay for hundreds of passengers.
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They live in wooden huts with braided palm leaves for roofs and mud floors cracked and uneven from the daily downpours of the rainy season.
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Last year's forest fires were at peak levels due to the prolonged dry season, and lasted months longer than usual, until the rainy season finally arrived.
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Seeds are planted inside at the start of the rainy season, and the pits boost crop productivity by concentrating scarce water and nutrients around the plants.
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The looming rainy season has raised fears of further spread of the worst outbreak in decades of the mosquito-borne haemorrhagic virus among unprotected African populations.
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It is the rainy season in Myanmar but a civil aviation official said the weather had been "normal" with good visibility when the plane took off.
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The rainy season in California is getting shorter and the droughts more prolonged, meaning there is simply more combustible material and a greater chance of wildfires.
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The Blue Hole, full of mullet and freshwater crabs, Mr. Zephirin said, is roughly 80 feet across and about 25 feet deep in the rainy season.
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But when it's not the rainy season, there's a question of whether there will be enough demand for the umbrellas for the businesses to stay profitable.
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Drainage work is due to start next month on the next street over, whose sandy surface is carved with potholes and grooves from the rainy season.
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Since the beginning of the rainy season in Somalia in March, riverine and flash floods have caused fatalities, massive displacement and damage to infrastructure and cropland.
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Landslides are common in mountainous Colombia, especially during rainy season and in areas where precarious informal housing and narrow roadways are constructed on deforested Andean hillsides.
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The school is also connected to the national grid but the power this provides is expensive and suffers from frequent outages, especially in the rainy season.
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The cause of the latest collapse was not known but it came after several days of torrential rainy-season downpours that flooded parts of the city.
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Outbreaks typically occur during the rainy season as "the rains drive the rodents out," said Daniel Bausch, director of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team.
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"When the rainy season comes there is likely to be an outbreak of cholera and other diseases because people defecate in the open," the worker said.
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During the rainy season, the flats are submerged in 6 to 20 inches of perfectly still water, turning the shallow lake into the world's largest mirror.
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At the most basic level, cutting consumption to the new 50-liter maximum could move Day Zero along the calendar into the traditional winter rainy season.
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Because most Indians are farmers, and a majority rely entirely on the monsoon rains, a blow to the rainy season is devastating, rendering lives barely recognizable.
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Heavy rains from the first big storm of the rainy season are expected to trigger mudslides in parts of Southern California charred last year by wildfires.
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Cumulative monsoon rains have been 2 percent below average since the beginning of the rainy season in June until July 9, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
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It was during the rainy season that the boyfriend started coming to my door, showing up at night with a bottle of whiskey and bar snacks.
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"It indicates that the arrival of summer and rainy season in the Northern Hemisphere can effectively reduce the transmission of the COVID-19," the authors wrote.
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One reason children die of malaria in this region is because the rainy season coincides with the hunger season between harvests, when their immunity is low.
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In June 2018, a boys&apos soccer team and their assistant coach became trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non Cave after a rainy season flash flood.
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Winter here brings the end of the rainy season and slightly lower temperatures, making it more difficult for the disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito to survive.
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If you're somewhere that has a rainy season, you have extra humidity to worry about — and if you're in a dry state, well, that's just extra sweat.
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The details of plan B have not been specified, but having to wait until the rainy season ends, while far from ideal, is still a sensible alternative.
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Despite the hard work, rescuers&apos progress was fitful at best, with no guarantee the water will soon recede with months left in Thailand&aposs rainy season.
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In a cruel twist, an unusual, prolonged rainy season has alleviated some of the pressure on food supplies but also provided the ideal conditions for locust reproduction.
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Guides suggest going to the flats during the rainy season (December through March), which flood the surface and turn the ground into a mirror for the sky.
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While habitat loss and pesticide use are some of the largest threats to monarchs, California was plagued with a late rainy season, wildfires, and smoke last year.
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Since the harvest in August, farmers here in Mathitu village have been preparing their land for planting in time for the short rainy season in mid-October.
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Deforestation is delaying the onset of the rainy season in some areas by six days a decade, according to research published in Global Change Biology, a journal.
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The campaign is being accelerated to try to stop it spreading before the rainy season starts in September and makes more remote parts of the region inaccessible.
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Apart from building reservoirs, Von Medeazza suggests rehabilitating around 300 ancient cisterns - underground storage tanks dating from Roman times that once collected water in the rainy season.
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"Many of the facilities without a continuous supply of water are often dependent on collecting rain water during the rainy season," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Ugandans eat these insects—they're a delicacy—and during the rainy season, when they're out in abundance and easier to trap, the hunters sell them to locals.
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NAIROBI, April 16 (Reuters) - Kenya is likely to suffer from worsening food shortages and water scarcity as the rainy season fails, its meteorological department said on Tuesday.
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In the rainy season, the channels overflowed and attracted mosquitoes, which bred and in turn increased rates of malaria and dengue fever among local inhabitants, Elong said.
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"Previously, if it rained in January, we rushed to plant our crops thinking the rainy season starts - when in fact it never comes before May," he said.
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The festival falls at the end of the rainy season and this year's celebration was preceded by a downpour, leaving priests to parade around large muddy puddles.
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The approaching rainy season increases the risk of disease spreading, especially within camps for the displaced, adding more stress to efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis.
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Temperatures in Japan unexpectedly rose after the end of a rainy season this summer, with highs of about 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) expected this week.
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Initially, the scheduling of the trip during rainy season concerned her, "but there's an assumption that the school makes every effort to keep children safe," she said.
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Apart from building reservoirs, Von Medeazza suggests rehabilitating around 300 ancient cisterns – underground storage tanks dating from Roman times that once collected water in the rainy season.
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He warned that the island's rainy season is just ahead and that "hundreds of thousands" of people are likely to be infected by the end of 2016.
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Farmers in the world's second-biggest rice exporter usually plant their main crop in May, the beginning of the rainy season, for harvest between August and October.
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However, Travel + Leisure notes that the St. Barts rainy season runs from September through November, and many establishments may close, so it can be a trade-off.
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Kiir said that postponement came at Machar's request, but said the rainy season would make it hard to accomplish the integration of their forces within six months.
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The use of schools as bases by armed groups could ramp up in the coming months as militants look for shelter during the rainy season, Mudge said.
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With the South Pacific nation's rainy season looming, Wanigela's thousands of residents are packed together in overcrowded and dilapidated dwellings with no sanitation and unreliable electricity supplies.
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Playing early in the season in Tampa — before the start of the rainy season — would preclude the need to build a domed stadium, thereby cutting construction costs.
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While traditional travel advice often suggests avoiding destinations during their rainy season, hotels and tour providers are now offering compelling reasons to rethink that point of view.
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But finding that genetic material would be a long shot, she knew: Shum Laka is close to the Equator and has a heavy rainy season each year.
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More than 620,000 people have left their homes because of the drought since November, the U.N. said, slowing down farmers' land preparation as the rainy season starts.
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The rainy season was in its final weeks, and though there was only one passing shower, the humidity made being outside for extended periods of time difficult.
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The city is in the heart of its summer rainy season, during which time an average of 12.7 inches of rain falls during the month of January.
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She sells not less than 200,000 each rainy season, which earns her at least 2 million shillings ($20,000) – and she cannot meet all the demand, she said.
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He warned that Puerto Rico's rainy season is coming — "it started raining while we were there" — which will lead to a higher number of mosquito-transmitted infections.
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The festival is typically held at the beginning of the rainy season, a period when winds pick up, making it easy for a fire to spread quickly.
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In the Amazonian lowlands of Yaguas National Park, different types of rivers that contain distinct forms of aquatic life mix during the rainy season as forests flood.
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The world's top cocoa producer is in its rainy season, with heavy downpours in the coastal regions and forest areas expected to continue until the end of June.
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At least 62 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after heavy rain continued its wave of destruction since the rainy season began earlier this month.
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After the rains of June 1003, 2100 claimed more than 2400 lives, the government finds itself under increased scrutiny to prevent another mass casualty disaster this rainy season.
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"You don't even need to buy the snails as they can be collected, especially in the rainy season", she said of the land snails from the Achatina genus.
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We've already been preparing for the rainy season with Amazon's best-selling raincoat, a super stylish (and affordable!) waterproof bag, and even a fun, raved-about dog poncho.
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Anyone living close to a river must rebuild at least 20 meters (65 feet) away from the riverbank to avoid flood waters reaching their homes during rainy season.
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But the moving target also reflects the uncertain future of Cape Town's water supply as the city enters the rainy season which, so far, hasn't provided enough rain.
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KIGALI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the rainy season, water used to pour into Dativa Nyiramajyambere's house on a cheap plot of land in the Kigali suburb of Rugenge.
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The outbreaks peak in the dry season in certain states due to the low humidity and dusty conditions and usually end as the rainy season approaches, Ihekweazu said.
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"Farmers began tapping in December because they had to wait for the rainy season to end but now they have to contend with the floods," Uthai told Reuters.
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Iligan, Philippines (CNN)During the rainy season on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, storms are foreshadowed by flashes of lightning in the distance, visible above the treetops.
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"The rainy season usually lasts from in June-August and may exacerbate the situation if no adequate preventative interventions can be implemented in time," a WHO spokesman said.
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It was the rainy season in Nigeria, which interferes with the Internet, and during a conference call with Channels two days earlier the connection had repeatedly cut out.
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Though the tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean frequently experiences intense monsoons and flooding, this year's devastation was unusually fierce for so early in the rainy season.
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Yet the jihadist group has stepped up attacks and suicide bombings in the past few weeks as the end of the rainy season facilitates movements in the bush.
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Even if they are given enough food to wait out the rainy season, there is no guarantee that the ledge they are sitting on will not be submerged.
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Daniel Kuria, who manages Energy 4 Impact's solar program in Kenya, agreed there is a need for a solar array that generates sufficient power in the rainy season.
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Most of the country's electricity comes from the massive Guri hydroelectric dam, whose reservoir has reached historic lows as the El Nino weather phenomenon delays the rainy season.
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Environmental groups have also raised concerns about the impact of the new airport, set on a barren expanse that absorbs water runoff during the city's intense rainy season.
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The area is on the cusp of the rainy season, and cloudy skies threatened to block the event, which occurred early Saturday and lasted less than a second.
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He pointed to another project in Malawi, in which a group of villages wants to build a bridge together because they all lose mobility during the rainy season.
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He added that total capacity would only be reached in the annual rainy season starting around April, and output would likely be less during the current dry season.
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The humanitarian award goes, hands down, to the Zipline, a small drone being used in Rwanda to transport blood and medicine through the jungles during the rainy season.
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When the lake gets too high during Florida's rainy season, billions of gallons of water are released east and west, bottlenecking into estuaries, along with the green algae.
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Haiti has been grappling with a heavy rainy season this year and is recovering from Category-4 Hurricane Matthew, which devastated much of the country's southwest last October.
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Many survivors rode out the rainy season in tattered tents because they mistakenly believed that moving into a temporary barrack would forfeit their right to a permanent housing.
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Throw in a four-month long rainy season that fills every trench the moment its dug, and assembling anything becomes like building a house of cards in a storm.
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The cave floods during Thailand&aposs rainy season and even elite Thai navy SEAL divers were finding it difficult to move through the muddy waters, currents and tight passageways.
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The drought may worsen in northern Somalia in the coming months as predictions for Somalia's main 'Gu' rainy season, from March to June, are poor, the United Nations said.
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Such measures are frequent during the rainy season in China's south, but Li Rong, power analyst with consultancy SIA Energy, said the size of the current shutdown was unprecedented.
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The Santa Ana winds are hot, dry winds that typically start blowing across Southern California in the fall and worsen through the winter when the rainy season should start.
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Factory manager Jiang complained about lower worker productivity in Myanmar compared with China, flooded roads during the rainy season, and power cuts of eight to nine hours every day.
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The Philippine nickel ore business is a highly seasonal one with both production and shipments tending to contract sharply during the rainy season which runs from December through March.
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Regardless of how the rest of the rainy season goes, this El Niño has already proven the weather forecaster's adage that no two El Niño events are exactly alike.
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The annual rainy season, which arrived in the second half of June, has hit southern Hunan province, one of the nation's largest hog and freshwater fish producers, the most.
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Food shortages and water scarcity could worsen if the rainy season — from March to May — fails entirely, the country's meteorological department said just days after the World Bank's move.
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And with the rainy season on its way in (really though, when isn't it?), we're going to want to get a jump start on stocking up on the necessities.
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The base was expected to be operational in 2018, but the rainy season and other "environmental complexities" caused a delay, a US official said to The Air Force Times.
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Rick Scott (R) visited Miami-Dade County officials on Monday to evaluate preparations in the weeks and months leading up to Florida's balmy rainy season, when mosquito populations boom.
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His stage name—a Peulh word referring to the water collecting after the rainy season, allowing the crops to grow back—is also the inspiration for the album's title.
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"Her brother and sisters had several episodes of fever—on a monthly basis in the rainy season—which most of the time tested positive for malaria," Bakari told me.
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With much of the country's basic infrastructure, including its sewage system, in disarray, there's particular concern that the water-borne disease will spread rapidly once the rainy season arrives.
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Situated on the banks of the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers, Phnom Penh is already highly vulnerable to floods, particularly in the rainy season from June to October.
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Hard as this may be to believe, these numbers will only continue to worsen in the coming months as Yemen struggles with its rainy season spanning July to September.
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The jihadist group, whose attacks have increased since the end of the rainy season in late 2016, also carries out cross-border attacks in neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned on Monday that a cholera epidemic in Yemen that killed more than 2,0.23 people could flare up again in the rainy season.
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An official in the environment ministry said that his forestry unit planned to purchase the seedlings at the start of the rainy season, which is not until mid-May.
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Two hours by boat from the nearest settlement, the island has no roads or buildings and it regularly floods during the rough seas of the June-September rainy season.
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Monsoon rains are likely to be unaffected by the El Nino weather pattern, which is expected to set in only after the four-month rainy season ends in September.
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This might have been an effect of deforestation; there is some evidence that water returned to the atmosphere by trees is particularly important in getting the rainy season going.
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Average temperatures in the area can soar above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or well over about 33 degrees Celsius, and that's even in the soaking rainfall of the rainy season.
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The Caribbean rainy season runs from May through November, and their hurricane season overlaps with much of it, with September and October posing the greatest risk of major storms.
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One possibility is that the 13 stay put in the Tham Luang cave until the flood waters recede, at the end of the rainy season in about four months.
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Just like that, she was hotter and wetter than Mumbai in the rainy season, wrapped in smoke and dust and wanting nothing more than to be drenched to the bone.
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Cuts to sanitation services caused a massive trash buildup in Luanda just in time for the rainy season, making it the perfect environment for mosquitoes carrying yellow fever to thrive.
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UNICEF Representative in Bangladesh Edouard Beigbeder released a statement on Thursday, saying that a huge number of those settled in the region will be affected by the coming rainy season.
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The National Drought Management Authority, a government agency managed to prevent emergencies, described the current situation as "stable", as the country's main rainy season is due to begin within weeks.
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In California in winter "an opposing trend toward a strong Pacific jet stream is projected to locally enhance precipitation during the core months of the 'rainy season'," he told Reuters.
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On a good day, there's just the dizziness—induced by crazy driving, compounded by malnourishment—and searing heat of the April summer or a rainy season downpour to contend with.
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Many migrants have been sleeping in the city's squares, but with the rainy season looming, the authorities have taken action to avoid a "collapse", said Teresa Surita, Boa Vista's mayor.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and Francophone West Africa's largest economy, is in the middle of its rainy season and meteorologists have forecast heavy rains until late June.
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South Asia's central plain sees scorching temperatures and strong winds that whip up fierce dust storms at this time of the year, just before the onset of the rainy season.
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The World Bank trimmed its forecast for Kenyan growth in 2019 to 5.7 percent this month from an earlier forecast of 5.8 percent because the main rainy season was delayed.
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The rainy season - which in northern China runs from July to September - will facilitate the migration of a large number of adult insects into Shandong, the province's agriculture bureau said.
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On Sunday, thousands of people attended the thanksgiving event that marks the end of the rainy season, a majority clad in red, black and white attire - the Oromiya region's flag.
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Surawan's reference to four months has been interpreted as a potential sign that authorities are considering waiting until after the rainy season ends in October to begin the rescue operation.
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The reference to four months has been interpreted as a potential sign that authorities are considering waiting until after the rainy season ends in October to begin the rescue operation.
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Motorbikes are the vehicle of choice of insurgent groups operating in the area, allowing them to easily navigate the harsh terrain, especially now, the end of the muddy rainy season.
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The Nations Cup finals in Cameroon have been moved forward to next January-February to avoid the rainy season, which means the qualifiers will have to be completed this year.
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In Diock, a village about three hours outside the capital, the rainy season should be in full swing by now, but by early August it had rained only four times.
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Tom Knust, a former Santa Anita racing secretary who is now a jockey's agent, said it had probably been a mistake to run so many races during the rainy season.
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Last week's rains, which were so deadly because the fires had left the earth bare, and susceptible to sudden flooding and mudslides, were just the start of California's rainy season.
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The 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing on June 23 when they were exploring the cave after soccer practice, just before a rainy season downpour flooded the complex.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is still in the dry season which runs from November to March, and will soon enter the rainy season that begins in April.
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The Motagua starts in the highlands of the west and passes directly through the city, creased with deep ravines that funnel rainy season floodwaters loaded with waste into the river.
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In Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria and on the entire continent, streets become rivers during the rainy season as sewage channels and drainage systems are overwhelmed during downpours.
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On the Japanese island Hachijo-jima, tiny, common mushrooms — known locally as hato-no-hi, or pigeon fire — glow along forest paths during the rainy season from May through September.
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The militants have never attacked Mokong, 723 miles from the Nigerian border, where 272,280 people are scattered in packed-mud houses along creek beds that fill during the rainy season.
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During the rainy season, "every family had one or two deaths from malaria," said Amadou Bakhao Diaw, a health economist and hospital director in Dagana, a town near Richard Toll.
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Coffee is temperature sensitive; highs and lows must fall within a certain range, and it needs a long dry period, then a gradual start to the rainy season, to thrive.
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Other residents who had returned to Benisheik said they were eager to move out of shelters that flood during the rainy season and offer no protection from the night chill.
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Back in 2015, an extremely dry rainy season connected to a strong El Nino event led to massive fires across the archipelago, particularly on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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Yet at the same time, the general inaccessibility of this region preserves a fragile independence for these fighters and the local communities they recruit from — at least in rainy season.
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Initially rescue officials said an option for the team would be just to wait out the rainy season – as diving could prove to be too dangerous – with necessary supplies being delivered.
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The cave, cut into a mountainside near the border with Myanmar, can flood severely during the rainy season, which runs from June to October, and there are warnings against exploring then.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - The southern hemisphere summer rainy season has killed 50 people in Mozambique since October, the country's National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) said in its latest update on Thursday.
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The UN says that the make or break element at this point is rain, and while rainy season is supposed to start in a few weeks, the forecasts predict more drought.
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The vast, largely agrarian country experiences a rainy season for only two months each year — and, with climate change causing havoc in weather patterns, even that is no longer a guarantee.
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However, even though the current campaign is one of the largest ever attempted in Africa, it must begin as soon as possible to end transmission before the rainy season in September.
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"We shot during the end of the rainy season," said Mr. Okoro, who was familiar with the region's climate but hadn't bargained for all the difficulty it would present in filming.
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Because I've been in that jungle myself, cut my way through it, knew what it meant to stand there in November at the height of the rainy season in the mud.
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In Ethiopia&aposs capital, Addis Ababa, people at an open-air restaurant admired a rare clear view during the rainy season, comparing a live NASA webcast to what they saw above.
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Everywhere—and especially during the December-through-March rainy season, when I was there—the track is muddy and slippery, constantly testing the integrity of your bike tires and your nerves.
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A breeze from outside—the train's doors never close—and old-school fans in wire caging keeps the cars cool on this humid day at the beginning of Myanmar's rainy season.
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However, officials fear efforts to rein in the disease will be complicated by the arrival of the rainy season next month, as malaria-carrying mosquitoes breed in pools of stagnant water.
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In the rainy season in his Arkansas town, the hogs get pushed out of nearby "swamps / low lying areas looking for higher ground," resulting in them pushing into human residential areas.
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Nevertheless, officials knew about Tham Luang's dangers well and had placed a warning sign at the cave's mouth against entering during the rainy season, when flash floods could inundate its chambers.
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"Spending on seasonal items such as summer clothes and outings didn't perform well due to the prolonged rainy season and lower temperature," said Koya Miyamae, senior economist at SMBC Nikko Securities.
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The airport timed the closure to start after the summer travel season and wrap up before things pick up around the holidays and the winter rainy season strikes the Bay Area.
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Indonesia's disaster agency last month said it expected the arrival of the rainy season - due at this time - to end the fires, which have affected more than 320,000 hectares of forests.
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Google says January is typhoon season and rainy season and mosquito season and mosquitoes carry dengue fever, the pain of which has been likened to sitting through the new Scorsese movie.
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Many try to flee, often on boats bound for Malaysia, Indonesia or elsewhere in Southeast Asia, particularly after the end of the rainy season in November, when the sea is calmer.
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"Historically, the rainy season corresponds with off-peak season for Caribbean destinations, meaning prices are typically lower at this time than others," said Liana Corwin, a consumer travel expert at Hopper.
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Now, nearly two decades later, the industry and the communities have recovered nicely, just in time for a rainy season that is predicted to be as strong as the 1998 event.
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Delivering blood by drone costs about the same as traditional motorbike delivery, which can be slowed by poor road conditions and isn't always an option during the country's long rainy season.
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By last October, after the main rainy season had concluded, it was clear from CHIRPS that the worst case had come to pass and Ethiopia would suffer greatly over the coming months.
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As demonstrated by this man, it's always best to take a peek into your shoes during the rainy season, because there may be a terrifying (yet oddly adorable) snake seeking refuge inside.
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"There is no work in the rainy season, so we come here," says the auspiciously named Avinash Ganesh Kar, a 22-year-old who makes 500 rupees ($7) a day painting gods.
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TSIHOMBE, Madagascar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Like many people in Madagascar's parched south, Ranotongae had been hoping for the heavens to open up and ease the country's poorest rainy season in 35 years.
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After back-to-back years of severe drought, these reservoirs hold just 26 percent of that total — a level that is likely to continue dropping until the rainy season starts in May.
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But rescuers are also considering other options including keeping the 13 inside the Tham Luang cave until the flood waters recede, at the end of the rainy season in about four months.
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As Zimbabwe struggles with the fallout from a slow start to the rainy season, bulk suppliers that deliver water in tankers have increased their prices, citing the high cost of extracting groundwater.
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Many parts of Colombia have entered the rainy season, a time of year when swollen rivers often break their banks in the Andean nation and mudslides destroy homes or block mountain roads.
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The push has been particularly important as climate change leads to more extreme downpours, some of which last five hours at a time in the capital's rainy season, from March to September.
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For reasons unknown, the boys and their coach ventured on, deeper into the cave network, past signs that warn people not to enter during the rainy season, which usually begins in July.
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About 34,000 babies are born each year in Puerto Rico, and Dr. Frieden said he anticipated "thousands" of expectant mothers to become infected during the hot, rainy season, which is just beginning.
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Ekapol and 12 boys had gone to explore the Tham Luang caves in Chiang Rai province on June 23, when a rainy-season downpour flooded the cave system and trapped them underground.
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In all, health authorities aim to vaccinate 14 million people in the two countries by the end of August to halt the spread of the disease before the rainy season next month.
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Anand Surawan of the Thai Navy raised the possibility that, under the worst-case scenario, the 13 would be in the cave for four months until the end of the rainy season.
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He says that irrespective of when the emergency measures are lifted this time, he does not expect air quality to be good again until the rainy season gets going properly next month.
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Brazil is larger than the continental United States, but its roads are poorly maintained and often flood during rainy season, and the state postal service is widely seen as inefficient and unreliable.
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Officials said that the children who died in August did so from a variety of ailments, particularly mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis, which hits the area hard every year during the rainy season.
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Highly populated areas in the country are often hit with severe outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease especially during the annual rainy season due to poor health services and unsanitary living conditions.
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Documenting jaguar behavior during the rainy season is rare, with their long-term stays in the treetops first recorded by the researchers in 43 after nine years of monitoring in the region.
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The La Nina weather phenomenon is likely to worsen hunger as it will affect Somalia's October to January short rainy season, known as the Deyr, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network has said.
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During heavy downpours in the rainy season - from November to March - Beira's ageing drainage system backs up within hours, forcing many people out of their homes, in particular in the slums, said Simango.
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As a result, "villages have emptied out", he said, with most of his neighbors heading to cities last year after their rainy season crop failed, along with the dry season crop following it.
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The rainy season in the worlds top cocoa producer has been slow to start, and farmers fear the April-to-September mid-crop could be cut short due to the lack of rain.
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Thailand's main rice-growing season begins in May, at the start of the rainy season, for harvest between August and October, while jasmine rice is usually grow in August for harvest in December.
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Storms are common at this time of the year, the beginning of the rainy season in South Asia, but the severity of the weather this year, and the human cost, have been unusual.
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One in fifty Yemenis, or 396,086 people, have been infected by the bacterial disease, and international aid groups have warned that, come the rainy season, the outbreak could spike to more than 600,000.
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Dr. Pruetz could often find them lurking in small caves in the dry season, and when the rainy season arrived, the chimpanzees would slip into newly formed ponds and bob there for hours.
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This event, as measured by meteorologists using satellites, buoys, aircraft observations and other tools, is slightly stronger than the 1997-98 event, which brought an extremely wet rainy season to the Golden State.
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The recent mass vaccination campaign aimed not only to stop the transmission of the virus but also to preempt transmission during the rainy season, which is already starting in some areas, Briand said.
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Despite the heavy downpours that come each rainy season, Mexico City, a mega-city of 21.3 million people, depends on depleting aquifers and has long struggled with providing enough water to its inhabitants.
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"The Brazil to China market has been quiet, but it is not unexpected as it is the seasonal rainy season and shippers do use this time for maintenance," Fearnley said in the note.
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"Water security is likely to pose a bigger challenge as climate change leads to less water in the dry season and heavier deluges in the rainy season," said Eddy Njoroge, the fund's president.
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Air-conditioner maker Fujitsu General Ltd was up 3.7 percent after the Meteorological Agency declared an end to the rainy season for Tokyo and the surrounding Kanto region, signalling the start of summer.
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Some children, in impeccable blue uniforms, walk to a school in the town of Chapotin - a trip that takes an hour and a half over a narrow path, impassable in the rainy season.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the Economic Times Global Business Summit, Sinha said that a favourable rainy season could add between 0.5 and 1 percentage point to growth in Asia's third-largest economy.
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The capital lies along the Java Sea at the end of a river delta, so, by its very topography, it is already prone to flooding during the rainy season, which begins this month.
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During Mexico's rainy season, the ground harbors a delicious secret: Fresh mushrooms, hidden in the few forests left in Mexico City, between lush green plants and the aromatic oyamel, a local evergreen free.
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"The increase in cases is concerning, as the rainy season — which could aggravate the overall situation — has not even started yet," said Hassan Boucenine, MSF head of mission in Yemen, in a statement.
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California summers are almost always dry, but the rainy season begins in October and by this time of year, Mr. Rasch said, Northern California should have received around 10 percent of its precipitation.
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DAKAR, Senegal — Rainy season flooding across Nigeria has killed more than 100 people, as water poured over the banks of the West African country's two major rivers, and into numerous cities and towns.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The downpour stopped, so Kirti Patel decided to hold the dinner party on her balcony, with its views of colossal flowering trees and construction that had stalled for the rainy season.
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With the rainy season beginning, the crews are careful not to let the material wash into storm drains — they're also careful to protect themselves from anything harmful that may be in the ash.
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Some children, in impeccable blue uniforms, walk to a school in the town of Chapotin — a trip that takes an hour and a half over a narrow path, impassable in the rainy season.
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Ten of Thailand's 77 provinces have been inundated in the middle of the annual rainy season, causing damage estimated at $300 million, with the northeastern stronghold of the Shinawatra political family particularly hard-hit.
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Nigeria's rainy season is now drawing to a close, but flood waters could take time to recede, while humanitarian needs are pressing and diseases such as cholera are a major risk, said the agency.
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Chances for further rate cuts could rest on trends in global oil prices and the impact of the monsoon rainy season on food prices after back-to-back droughts in the two previous years.
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Millions of Nigerians may soon be in peril if the situation deteriorates, as authorities expect, when the five-month rainy season begins in May and makes farming impossible in areas that are now accessible.
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"The rainy season had begun by the start of the year, with no more forest fires, so things have returned to normal because rubber trees are not as fragile as other trees," he said.
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The region's fertile soil depends on nutrient-rich sediment that the Mekong carries downriver, mainly during the rainy season from June to October; more than half the sediment in central Cambodia comes from China.
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Malaria - which peaks in the rainy season - is endemic in Yemen, with more than 78 percent of people living in at-risk areas and a quarter of them in high-risk areas, WHO said.
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But today, with the solar panels, there is a much lower fee - 500 shillings ($5), which goes to pay for more grid power in the rainy season when the solar panels work less effectively.
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Roberts visited the country in March, Adler in April — at the end of the rainy season, when (today as two centuries ago) the ground really is carpeted with flowers, and vivid greens surround you.
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A winding dirt road (requiring a four-wheel drive during the rainy season) leads to the multilevel, 9,100-square-foot home, which was built in 2010 and offers panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.
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It is the rainy season in India, when officials say it is not unusual for as many as 10 children to die in the hospital every day from Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease.
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The "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach got trapped on June 23 when they set out to explore the vast cave complex after soccer practice, when a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels.
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CP All's same store sales grew at 4.4 percent in the third quarter, up from 1.6 percent a year earlier, but lower than 5.0 percent in the second quarter due to the rainy season.
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During the rainy season - which has been heavy this year - Kimanthi keeps a close eye on the pond to try to avoid it overflowing and carrying away some of his 3,000 tilapia and catfish.
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IT IS the rainy season in Hong Kong, but for journalists and others greeting Xi Jinping at the airport, on his first visit to the territory as China's leader, the order was categorical: no umbrellas.
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NASA's Earth Observatory explains how intense this rainy season has been:More than five inches of rain fell in parts of northern California and along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada on February 19–20.
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They could be shipped to Yemen in time to be used in a preventative immunization campaign ahead of the rainy season, when the risk increases that cholera will spread further through water contaminated with faeces.
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Early this year an unusually brutal rainy season due to a sudden warming of Pacific waters killed 162 people, slowed economic growth sharply and caused damage equivalent to 2 percent of Peru's gross domestic product.
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Temperatures unexpectedly rose after the end of the country's rainy season, with most of the country's monitoring posts recording highs of over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
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When I arrived, it was the end of the rainy season, and the sky still opened up for intense downpours in the middle of the afternoon heat, causing puddles to pool and gutters to overflow.
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In a statement, President Xi Jinping ordered the rescue efforts to continue at full intensity, and he told other areas of the country to be on guard for signs of danger during the rainy season.
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The project will also address drought by assisting rural farming communities to install about 7,400 water harvesting tanks on the roofs of homes, schools and clinics, allowing them to collect water during the rainy season.
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Elephants frequently enter plantations in the area to feed on palm oil fruits, especially during the rainy season, he said, adding a team had this week been trying to prevent elephants straying onto human settlements.
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The Son River, which flows through the town, often inundates it during the rainy season, and after a devastating flood in 2010, the Ho Chi Minh City businessman Nguyen Chau A returned to his homeland.
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Imagine that you are living in an area near a river or large body of water and the only thing keeping your home from flooding during the annual rainy season is a federally-maintained dam.
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Those left to clean up the mess are in a race against time to get the waste under control before the region's rainy season, which stretches from December through February, spreads the waste even further.
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