During the monsoons, it can prove to be downright lethal.
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Seasonal rains and monsoons are becoming more variable and less predictable.
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The region experiences seasonal cool temperatures, winter storms, and summer monsoons.
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Find out what kind of impact historic monsoons have had there.
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Midsummer monsoons drench the region, a no-no for sophisticated growers.
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Weak monsoons and killer heatwaves left India barren and praying for rain.
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WHY NOW By November, most of Thailand's rains and monsoons have passed.
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Dams aren't supposed to be full before the end of the monsoons.
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This year's monsoons have left roughly a third of its terrain submerged.
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There is not much you can do but hope for the monsoons.
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Predicting monsoons helps farmers determine when and how to work their land.
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Authorities have said the monsoons could cause water to rise in the cave.
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The 2016 monsoons are forecast to bring an above-average amount of rainfall.
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Monsoons from 2013 to 5.63, and again in 2018, delivered below-average rainfall.
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The adult migration is triggered by the coming monsoons, which start in November.
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Earlier this month, it predicted the onset of the monsoons on June 7th.
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We bury this beneath heaps of prosaic tasks and monsoons of endless didactics.
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The monsoons would soon be coming, making the Andaman too dangerous to cross.
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Chronic droughts and punishing monsoons are threatening the food supplies of billions of people.
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Take when monsoons trapped his crew in Manila during a visit to the Philippines.
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Now the monsoons will victimize refugees who have nothing but us to rely on.
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When the monsoons came, the water whooshed away as quickly as the rain fell.
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Two failed monsoons, and sudden unseasonal rains, have caused widespread crop damage across northern India.
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She lives in an area that has monsoons or droughts, but she can't get insurance.
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Most of the time, the two annual monsoons suffice to top up lakes and groundwater.
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Even conscientious drivers are handicapped during monsoons due to low visibility, slippery roads and potholes.
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Warmer temperatures and additional moisture in the air magnify the intensity of hurricanes and monsoons.
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However others have pointed out that Zambia has no monsoons, as Linton reports in the article.
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During monsoons our roads turn into a veritable minefield of submerged potholes, which are extremely dangerous.
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The monsoons affected more than 43 million people across South Asia, including Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
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The report said that the biggest risks were floods and droughts linked to the erratic monsoons.
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Monsoons in India are normal — typically beginning and June and beginning to retreat by early September.
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Now he was stateless, homeless and soaked by the monsoons and the occasional surge of sewage.
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BANGKOK — Every year, as the monsoons deluge northern Myanmar, the jade mountains turn into a cemetery.
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Around the world, consistent access to power is a problem worsened by hurricanes, earthquakes and monsoons.
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Models suggest that, in the next century, monsoons will become more and more erratic and extreme.
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Several older and badly-constructed structures have crumbled in Mumbai in recent years due to heavy monsoons.
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In June, July and August — when the brunt of the monsoons hit — the earth proves particularly deadly.
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This year's monsoons have been especially heavy — not only for Mumbai, but across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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In South-East Asia there are monsoons, humidity, lots of wild animals: "horrible for preservation," says Mr Byrd.
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"If the monsoons deliver good rainfall then we will need to import around 3.5 million tonnes," Gahlaut said.
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As we made our way through the mountains, Neogi pointed out areas prone to landslides in the monsoons.
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Parched by drought and disoriented by shifting monsoons, the mainland of India is sometimes burning and sometimes flooded.
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Monsoons and flooding are becoming more difficult to predict as urbanization and climate change impact the country's landscape.
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Monsoons are crucial for India's food prices and economic growth with half of the country's farmland lacking irrigation.
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Recently, India's monsoons have become more sporadic, for reasons that many scientists ascribe to the world's changing climate.
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Moreover, recent erratic Indian monsoons muddy the outlook for winter-harvested crops in a largely agriculture-reliant economy.
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In the late 19th century terrible famines linked to failed monsoons took tens of millions of lives in Asia.
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But forecasting the monsoon remains fantastically difficult, especially as four in every ten monsoons are classified as abnormal anyway.
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He is one of millions struggling after a strong El Niño led to reduced rain from the southwest monsoons.
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Of course, hurricanes, monsoons and other types of extreme weather are a part of life on earth for many.
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The arrival of the monsoons on the southern coast of Kerala was already about a week late this year.
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The global South suffers worse droughts and more irregular monsoons, undermining fragile agricultural systems and causing famines and civil unrest.
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They were told they would be expected to work from January to June, before the monsoons usually strike, disrupting work.
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And rainfall, such as the South Asian monsoons, on which much of subcontinental economic life hinges, will become more erratic.
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In Lahore, mosquito-borne diseases surge each September as the first monsoons create pools of water in which mosquitoes breed.
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A combination of global warming and urban growth makes these monsoons, which have always been variable, especially difficult to predict.
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Scientists warn such measures could have hard-to-predict regional or global impacts, such as unintentionally shifting monsoons in Asia.
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Monsoons deliver about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall and are critical for farmers because half of their lands lack irrigation.
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As the data should help improve rainfall prediction for future monsoons, that is good news for scientists, farmers and robot fans.
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Also in that part of the world, nearly 200 people are missing in Sri Lanka after flooding brought on by monsoons.
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Rainfall in 2015 from monsoons, which sweep over most of India from June to September, was 20153 percent below the average.
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Eruptions across the globe may have suppressed monsoons, the scientists said, diminishing the annual river floods and leading to food shortages.
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The figures are found only on windswept hills that are flooded during monsoons, places where there would have been no shelter.
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This includes tragedies like the widespread famine in Darfur, monsoons and flooding in Bangladesh and the catastrophic hurricane in Puerto Rico.
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Late monsoons in India, an imbalance in sea temperatures in the Indian Ocean and strong winds have hampered rainfall in Australia.
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It regularly floods during June-September monsoons and, when seas are calm, pirates roam the nearby waters to kidnap fishermen for ransom.
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Most varieties of rice plants will die if they are completely submerged in water during the flash floods that can follow monsoons.
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This has climatic ripple effects across the globe, and is known to disrupt monsoons, including the one that drives Nile River patterns.
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Veeranam lake in neighboring Cuddalore district - one of Chennai's main water sources - is almost dry after the failure of the 2016 monsoons.
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Storage systems in cities have fallen into disuse; aquifers under farmland are depleted year by year faster than the monsoons can refill them.
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If the Raj was indifferent as to the human effects of failed monsoons, though, it did exhibit an interest in the failures' causes.
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When the mountain range got high enough to change the climate, millions of years ago, the monsoons weakened and the weather got drier.
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Over a period of hundreds of thousands of years, the monsoons weakened, triggering a migration of plants and animals out of the area.
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When rainfall is reduced and monsoons are suppressed, the Nile fails to flood as usual, starving the crops that depend on its water.
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Almost all do it during Everest's short climbing season, usually a few weeks in May, between the winter and the region's summer monsoons.
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There are also environmental effects that can dramatically alter the map, like encroaching monsoons that devastate the shore or sinkholes that create deadly pits.
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Monsoons and heavy rainfall reduce Thengar Char to an uninhabitable island as it is subjected to flooding and swamp-like conditions nearly year-round.
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The summer and winter monsoons determine the climate across Southeast Asia and India and provide the water necessary for growing crops in the region.
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Another IMD official attributed the revision in forecast to the absence of La Nina, a weather phenomenon that typically causes stronger monsoons across Asia.
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In today's 360 video, step aboard a houseboat that doubles as a school, part of a program started in response to flooding during monsoons.
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When the monsoons hit Calcutta, the mounds of garbage on the streets clogged the drains and turned the city into a vast, infested swamp.
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Monsoons deliver about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall and are the lifeblood of its $2.5 trillion economy, spurring farm output and boosting rural spending.
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Just as coastal breezes turn around at set of sun, when the land cools fast and the sea stays warm, so monsoons reverse in winter.
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How exactly the phenomenon interacts with the monsoon is not well understood, however, as even large Niños in the past have coincided with normal monsoons.
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In recent years, rain has become even more important for India as dryer monsoons have caused a water supply crisis in the country to worsen.
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After his money ran out, he moved out of a cheap motel room and camped in a tent for 11 days, battling monsoons and mosquitoes.
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In India, Unilever's second-largest market by sales, irregular monsoons have dented rural spending, while a sluggish job market has weakened consumption in urban areas.
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Computer modeling by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) shows that more than 100,000 refugees will be threatened by landslides and floods in the coming monsoons.
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As polar vortexes, nor'easters and monsoons ensue across the country, people are more likely to stay indoors, which also means that germs can circulate more easily.
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In a recent interview with television channel ET Now, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government was aware of the impact two bad monsoons have had.
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Between pollution, overuse and global warming—which appears to be making the monsoons more capricious and slightly less generous—India is fast approaching a water crisis.
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Aid agencies have warned that the monsoons will cause deaths at the camps, which are clustered in a part of Bangladesh that records the highest rainfall.
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Deficient monsoons over the past couple of years, triggered by global warming and phenomena like El Nino, have brought on drought-like conditions in some areas.
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"This crisis was expected considering that the last monsoons had failed," said Sekhar Raghavan of Rain Centre, a nonprofit that promotes rainwater harvesting in the city.
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Monsoons are the lifeblood of India's $893 trillion economy, spurring farm output and boosting rural spending on items ranging from gold to cars, motorcycles and refrigerators.
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Water disputes over rivers are common in India, where droughts and weak monsoons weigh heavily on the majority of the country that still lives off agriculture.
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The early rains — known in Bengali as kalboishakhi, which translates loosely as the storms of an "evil summer" — are a precursor to the full-on monsoons.
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Forest fires are an annual event in Indonesia — sparked in the dry early fall as village farmers clear their fields and then extinguished by the monsoons.
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On a day when the monsoons did not swallow Manila's streets, I went to El Hospicio de San Jose, the orphanage where my grandmother once lived.
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But critics warn that it could change fundamental earth processes in hard-to-predict and potentially hugely problematic ways, such as shifting the focus of Asia's monsoons.
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After two successive below-average monsoons in 2014 and 2015, ground water levels have receded, impacting many rural Indians who rely on ground wells for drinking water.
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According to Namal Karunaratne, national organizer of the All Ceylon Peasants' Federation, the country's monsoons used to bring around 4.5 million metric tons of rain each year.
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It wasn't unusual for the monsoons, which drench the mountainous reaches of Kenya's Rift Valley each May, to turn the rural clay roads to slop, Cheserek explained.
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Depleting reservoirs have even forced some municipalities in places like Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad to cut supplies to ensure water lasts until the arrival of the monsoons.
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While covering India's climatic extremes, a medical emergency intervened, and the story became not only about monsoons, but also about Indian society, the human mind and cancer.
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Cadolini helps them along by setting the misting system to recreate a dry spell before turning it back on to mimic the monsoons, when many frogs find love.
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Typically, the monsoons hit Kerala's southern coast on June 1, but this year it could be delayed until June 6, the state-run India Meteorological Department has warned.
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"Going by the track record of the RBI, they would perhaps wait for the clarity on monsoons," said Ravi Gopalakrishnan, head of equities at Canara Robeco Mutual Fund.
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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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According to Reuters, Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues warned in April that monsoons could bring "enormous deaths" if camps aren't built to withstand heavy storms.
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The team had to be pulled out over a three day period as Thailand's annual monsoons flooded the cave, prompting a massive and frenzied search and rescue operation.
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"The Puea Thai party has passed hot, cold and heavy monsoons ... but all members of the party are still committed to safeguarding democracy," it said in the statement.
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Poor monsoons and weak agricultural prices have hurt purchasing power of villagers and the budget could address this by announcing safety net measures, such as crop insurance, HSBC said.
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Poor monsoons are not unusual, but the back-to-back shortfalls, linked to the El Niño effect, which India has experienced in the past two years are very rare.
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Outbreaks of the virus tend to occur in poor, flood-hit areas such as Gorakhpur, where monsoons leave pools of stagnant water, allowing mosquitoes to breed and infect villagers.
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IMD's forecast for the 2017 monsoons was its most accurate since 2008, when there was a difference of only 1 percentage point between the forecast and the actual rainfall.
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In parts of Asia, however, where contrasts between land and sea temperatures help drive monsoon rains, changing local temperature extremes might have some impact on monsoons, the report warned.
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Beginning with the initial burst in May or June and culminating in steady rainfall through September, monsoons supply a vital resource to reservoirs and much of the peninsula's farmlands.
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Earlier modeling of solar geoengineering to avert all projected warming flagged the possibility of changes in water availability, sparking fears the technology could shift monsoons, and create "winners" and "losers".
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Two-thirds of Indians still live in rural areas, compared with 41% of Chinese As for water, a near-total reliance on moody monsoons has not made Indians careful users.
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The former could be catastrophic, because models suggest it could shift the balance of energy in the upper atmosphere in a way that causes large-scale disruptions to tropical monsoons.
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Helping farmers manage water can help limit crop failures from failed monsoons, said Kulkarni, whose organization helped establish "pani panchayat" - or water village councils - that were popular in the 1970s.
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the enormous wildfires in the Western United States and widespread flooding from monsoons in Southeast Asia are potent reminders of the cost of ignoring climate science.
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Bangkok Dispatch BANGKOK — The monsoons are no longer lashing Bangkok, in that soggy season when my sons sometimes have to wade through waist-high floods to get to soccer practice.
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Unrelated to the annual monsoons, large parts of Sri Lanka and now southern India have been lashed this week by rains caused by a tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal.
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"We spoke to farmers, neighbours and planters about why wildlife was so critical to preserve green cover and why forests are critical to have the monsoons come on time," Pamela says.
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Yet two of its biggest emerging markets show signs of slowing growth, with the impact of trade wars hitting domestic consumption in China and irregular monsoons curbing rural spending in India.
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Water shortages set to get worse As the climate crisis makes rainfall and the annual monsoons -- vital for the region's agriculture -- more erratic, droughts and water shortages will become more severe.
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Chennai has been in the global spotlight since its four main reservoirs dried up earlier this month, largely because of poor monsoons in 2018, forcing residents to ration the use of water.
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Guterres said an international humanitarian appeal for the refugees remained significantly underfunded at 33 percent and more must be done to alleviate the threats to life from the current and impending monsoons.
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Indian monsoons, one of the largest determinants of the inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
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" "If growth impulses continue to remain weak in Q1, below the RBI's target, and inflation impulses remain muted given normal monsoons, there is room for another rate cut of 25 bps in August.
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In an effort to work better with the weather, India will abandon the statistical method and instead adopt a $60 million supercomputer with 3D modeling to help predict next year's monsoons, reports Reuters.
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Better monsoons will mean greater purchasing power for rural economy which will then have a multiplier effect on growth through consumer durables demand in the economy and investment growth will not be far behind.
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Monsoons deliver about 70% of India's annual rainfall and are the lifeblood of its $2.5-trillion economy, spurring farm output and boosting rural spending on items ranging from gold to cars, motorcycles and refrigerators.
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Monsoons deliver about 70% of India's annual rainfall and are the lifeblood of its $2.5 trillion economy, spurring farm output and boosting rural spending on items ranging from gold to cars, motorcycles and refrigerators.
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Moreover, the monsoons, one of the largest determinants of India's inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
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Depleting reservoirs have even forced some municipalities in places like Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad to cut supplies to ensure water lasts until the arrival of the monsoons, which are running a few days late.
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In Mumbai, India, where summer monsoons are annual events, as much rain fell in 12 hours on Tuesday as normally does over 11 days in a typical monsoon, paralyzing the city, India's financial capital.
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The fund could help scientists in developing nations study regional impacts of solar geo-engineering such as on droughts, floods or monsoons, said Andy Parker, a co-author and project director of the SRMGI.
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The World Bank has warned that rising temperatures and changing monsoons could cost India 2.8% of GDP per person by 2050 and affect the living standards of 600m Indians in areas identified as hot spots.
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Bangladesh is working on relocating around 100,000 refugees from risky areas of the camps into safer sections ahead of the monsoons, said Mohammad Rezaul Karim, a government official in charge of the largest refugee camp.
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Monsoons deliver about 70 percent of India's annual rainfall and are the lifeblood of its $2.5 trillion economy, spurring farm output and boosting rural spending on items ranging from gold to cars, motorcycles and refrigerators.
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In collaboration with Frederik Ottesen, an engineer, he launched the Little Sun project at Tate Modern in 2012, selling portable solar lamps and phone chargers in the shape of Ethiopian meskel flowers (which bloom after monsoons).
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However, this liquidity requires a trigger which could either be the monsoons getting back on track, an improvement in the global geopolitical environment, or strong value-buying by marquee investors and funds providing the initial impetus.
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When the monsoons finally did arrive, they were more intense and deadly than usual -- the country as a whole is now measuring 6.5% above average in terms of rainfall for the season, according to CNN meteorologists.
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In India, more than 165,000 people have been forced out of their homes by the monsoons and have taken refuge in 1,318 relief camps across the southern state of Kerala, where 60 people have died, officials said.
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Because here, along the banks of the Bagmati river — turgid and brown before the onset of the monsoons — is where the devout send their dead to the next world in accordance with the teachings of the Vedas.
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Deserts teem with paradoxes: Gothic-looking cactuses sprout satiny flowers, some of which are edible; scorching days give way to nights that dip below freezing; summer monsoons bring ragged black clouds, torn along seams of white lightning.
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And why, despite over a decade of increasingly deadly hurricanes, droughts, monsoons, and heat waves, has no movement arisen with sufficient power to topple the cabal of fossil fuel billionaires who are largely responsible for the climate crisis?
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GUWAHATI, India/KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - Floods have forced more than four million people from their homes across India, Nepal and Bangladesh and killed more than 100 people as torrential rains in the initial days of monsoons wreaked havoc.
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In its advertising, it used the example of a farmer named Ganesh, who would be able to find weather information and prepare for monsoons, look up commodity prices to get better deals, and invest in new crops and livestock.
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The weak monsoons over the past two years haven't affected the country's economic growth, which grew at 7.9% in the most recent fiscal quarter that ended on March 31, securing its standing as the world's fastest growing major economy.
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In the central state of Madhya Pradesh, where at least 70 have died since the onset of the monsoons in June and more than 40,000 homes partially or fully destroyed, almost 20,000 people have been evacuated to relief camps.
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"Lightning strikes are common during monsoons, but there have been more strikes than usual this year," said Vyas Ji, principal secretary in Bihar, where a record 57 people died Tuesday from the strikes -- the most of any state in the country.
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"Families are desperate to restart their lives before the monsoons hit next month and are exposed to the heat as they spend the entire day salvaging what is left of their homes," said Samuel Behera, an executive with charity Smile Foundation.
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"We anticipate gold demand to return to normalcy during the peak season of weddings and festivals closer to Diwali, supported by good monsoons that will positively impact rural demand," Somasundaram PR, managing director of the WGC's Indian operations, said on Thursday.
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When the last beat drops at each year's Ultra Music Festival and monsoons of confetti flutter to the ground, tens of thousands of sweaty partiers draped in colorful flags from all over the world stream into the streets of downtown Miami.
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The book's 18 case studies, along with the Balinese terraces, include thorny acacia corrals in Kenya that protect livestock and are covered in edible seedpods, and midair footbridges in northern India made of interwoven tree roots and navigable during monsoons.
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Much of what has been built here this year — warrens of bamboo shelters piled on bald, treeless hills — is still at risk from late summer monsoons, while the scourge of deadly diseases like cholera and diphtheria is expected to continue.
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For Kerala, devastated by flooding from last summer's monsoons, the show is an economic lifeline that is expected to draw tourists from around the world, some of whom may also visit the area's beaches or stay on houseboats on its inland waterways.
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After about 245,2100 Rohingya fled Myanmar into Bangladesh 63 months ago and set up camp, they realized they were not only at risk from monsoons and cyclones but also elephants, as they were blocking a migration path, with 26 people killed in six months.
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I grew up in Tennessee, but spent many summers in India running around with my cousins in the monsoons, waking up to my grandmother making masala-spiced eggs with fresh, pillowy roti flatbread, and of course, experimenting with slightly off-center Eastern beauty techniques.
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In India, for instance, late monsoons and rain falling in the harvest season in states such as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, have led to crop losses as high as 50 percent, said Joyashree Roy, a report author and economics professor at India's Jadavpur University.
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"Although we expect the RBI to remain on hold for some time, if domestic food prices increase on weak monsoons and/or oil prices spike up, we would expect the RBI to hike the repo rate to manage inflationary expectations," Quantum Debt Fund told clients.
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A number of state governments, including Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, have announced farm loan waivers worth billions of dollars this year as farmers in the Asia's third-largest economy continue to suffer from erratic monsoons and poor access to facilities such as crop insurance.
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For thousands of years, his ancestors have been using mineral pigments, such as red hematite and yellow limonite, mixed with adhesives like water, blood and animal fat, to illustrate aspects of their culture on the sides and ceilings of rock shelters used during monsoons.
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"That Maharashtra would face a water crisis was clear when monsoons failed, yet the state took no action to curb supplies to water-guzzling industries like beer and sugar," said Parineeta Dandekar, associate coordinator at the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People.
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Bangladesh is hosting refugees in cramped conditions in camps in the border district of Cox's Bazar, but wants to move them to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, citing monsoons and an increasingly deteriorating law and order situation fueled by drug smuggling.
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As the build-up of atmospheric greenhouse gases which began back then traps ever more heat the monsoons will change; the vast clouds of pollutants created by Asia's now endemic use of coal and oil are affecting them too, in ways that meteorologists do not yet understand.
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The IMD had forecast surplus rains in August and September, largely because of the La Nina, a weather phenomenon that cools the waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America that typically causes stronger monsoons across Asia, said one of the senior IMD officials.
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Chhota Shigri and the other glaciers of the eastern Himalayas are unusual, in that, unlike the majority of the world's glaciers, which get most of their snow from winter storms, they get much of theirs from the summer monsoons, which tend to insulate them from more rapid melting.
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Delhi's heat index, a metric that takes average temperatures and relative humidity into account, has risen sharply — by 0.6 degrees Celsius in summer and 0.55 degrees during monsoons per decade between 1951 and 2010, according to one analysis based on data from 0.55 weather stations across the country.
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Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, a diabetes specialist, and Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, are among the researchers exploring a theory that Indians evolved what Dr. Yajnik has called "a thin-fat" body type over millenniums as a way to survive famines when monsoons failed.
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While the most recent "sailing season" — the time between monsoons when it is most safe for boats to travel — saw far, far fewer vessels taking to sea, observers warn that the root causes of the crisis haven't gone away, while thousands of refugees remain trapped in camps and detention centers across southeast Asia.
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To qualify for M.R.E. duty, a food item has to be able to survive years of storage in a dank ship's hold or a sun-baked shipping container, withstand Arctic freezes and tropical monsoons, stave off assaults by insects, and remain intact through a parachute airdrop or even a free fall from 100 feet.
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It was hardly a secret that Amazon was intrigued with the "Recipe in a box" model, and that it had the infrastructure all ready to go with millions of Prime subscribers, monsoons of revenue and now Whole Foods, but registering a trademark for a legit foray into that space is tantamount to slapping a death warrant on Blue Apron's already hobbled stock price.
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