Now, monsoon, the root of the word monsoon comes from the word season.

Now, when I talk about the northeast monsoon season,

October, November, December. That is not the northeast monsoon season.

The northeast monsoon ushers in the dry season, which lasts from November to April.

The northeast monsoon ushers in the dry season, which lasts from November to March.

NEW DELHI Every year, during India s rainy season, there is, equally predictably, a monsoon session of Parliament.

The country has never experienced a civil war, either. Also, Zambia does not experience monsoon season nor does it really have jungles.

Movements Birds have sometimes been seen attracted to lights at night, especially during the monsoon season, suggesting that they are partly migratory.

That's the inter monsoon, the time when the monsoon changes.

The climate of the Red Sea is the result of two monsoon seasons a northeasterly monsoon and a southwesterly monsoon.

Further, these mountains catch the precipitation of the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean, resulting in a rainy season that lasts from June until mid September.

In Sri Lanka, if you go down to the south coast of Sri Lanka, during the northeast monsoon season, you can see blue whales very, very easily.

As monsoon season came and went, the Hutu Tutsi conflict in neighbouring Congo began to escalate and then spill over into Zambia with repercussions all along the lake.

A failed monsoon in India.

This is a summer monsoon.

We have survived the monsoon.

But in October, remember, we're still in southwest monsoon, Maldives is still in the southwest monsoon.

How will monsoon patterns be affected?

That's what brings the monsoon rain.

Now, when I talk about the northeast monsoon season, I'm sure many of you here know exactly what I mean, but perhaps some of you are not quite so sure.

Sri Lanka's climate includes tropical monsoons the northeast monsoon (December to March), and the southwest monsoon (June to October).

like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm.

Maldives is still in the southwest monsoon.

I can be in the southwest monsoon.

Season follows the pre season.

During the monsoon, rainfall averages 40 mm day.

Then the front moves into the northeast monsoon.

No, not this season. Next season.

NEW DELHI Every year, during India s rainy season, there is, equally predictably, a monsoon session of Parliament. And, every year, there seems to be increasing debate about which is stormier the weather or the legislature.

But in October, remember, we're still in southwest monsoon,

But the wind above is from the northeast monsoon.

This is getting ready for the monsoon in Bombay, India.

So it comes from the southwest. It's a southwest monsoon.

Gone are days of hardship Sing the melodies of monsoon

The southwest monsoon (from May to October) is known as the Habagat, and the dry winds of the northeast monsoon (from November to April), the Amihan.

Now, what I said was, you get the southwest monsoon going one way, and then it changes and you get the northeast monsoon going the other way.

These temporal curves are analyzed to extract useful parameters about the vegetation growing season (start of season, end of season, length of growing season, etc.).

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Good season.

It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm.

During the winter monsoon, however, currents in the north are reversed.

It can also harvest something like 25,000 in a good monsoon.

And we're starting in June. So this is the monsoon rain.

What's happening is they are breeding in the monsoon rains here.

We've got to get where we're going before the monsoon starts.