The word "monsoon" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use "monsoon" to refer to the seasonal wind shifts that bring a period of heavy rain and wind in many parts of the world. Example: The monsoon season in India brings heavy rains and flooding every year.
In the village, I lie awake each night, unable to sleep over the monsoon rain which clatters against the thin roof, the incessant chirping of crickets; and the shrill cock-a-doodle-doos that send me stumbling out of bed and into a breakfast of mashed pumpkin, watery daal and jackfruit.
Driving monsoon rains – and the end of the trafficking season – are expected within days.
Way above the Tasman Sea, a gigantic high-pressure system moved slowly, while to the northwest an intense tropical low butted against a great monsoon trough that stretched over the north of the continent.
In monsoon conditions, and with history in mind, this was a tie Celtic wanted to see out with a minimum of fuss.
Every monsoon, the Brahmaputra takes great bites out of the island, swallowing many homes.
In late October, bamboo huts are erected all along the beach, and they can be hired until the end of May, when the monsoon season begins and the huts are taken down.
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And so it was that, thanks to Liam Gallagher, my father and I and two friends met Paolo at the VIP entrance of San Siro in the middle of a monsoon and ascended those famous circular stairs until we reached the executive boxes.
The monsoon, predicted to hit southern India's coastline on 31 May, will bring relief from the high temperatures, but it will not reach the parched north of the country for several weeks.
The champions returned to the top of the table in this repeat of last season's Premiership final in monsoon conditions in north London.
Rooms come with Egyptian cotton bed linen and monsoon rain showers.
