Sentence examples for monsoon over from inspiring English sources

WHILE waiting out the monsoon over the Labor Day weekend, Monica Seles did what tennis fans everywhere were doing: she flicked on the television.

Dr Ramanathan has amassed a range of evidence that ABCs, the regional effects of which are far greater than global averages, have depressed rainfall in the Indian monsoon over the past decades.

Floods, followed by drought, have slashed Malawi's maize production by more than a quarter, farmers in central America have suffered from two years of drought and El Niño conditions have already reduced the Asian monsoon over India, potentially triggering a wider drought across the east of the continent.

In the midst of an extended metaphor in which the English in India are seen as frigate birds, he writes that, as they fly away from the land they have scavenged, their next "prey is lodged in England; and the cries of India are given to seas and winds, to be blown about, in every breaking up of the monsoon, over a remote and unhearing ocean".

Climate change is expected to shift the spatial and temporal distributions of precipitation from the summer monsoon over the Indus River Basin.

The main scientific goal of this expedition was to unravel the evolution and variability of the East Asian monsoon over multiple timescales.

When the monsoon is over, the coat can be neatly folded into its own tiny plaid pouch ($295 at Barneys New York).

Depending on the time of year, these disturbances can affect the monsoons over India, the rainfall in the northwestern United States or hurricanes forming in the Atlantic.

Hitherto, the causes of the decadal variability of Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon (NHSM) are largely unknown because the monsoons over Asia, West Africa, and North America have been studied primarily on a regional basis, which is unable to identify coherent decadal changes and the overriding controls on planetary scales.

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.

A traditional belief has it that frog marriage pleases the gods of rain and ensures a good harvest Source: AFP A seaside promenade with a background of monsoon clouds gathering over the Arabian Sea at Kochi, in the southern state of Kerala Source: REUTERS City folk enjoying a heavy shower.