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  2. Monsoon of South Asia - Wikipedia

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    A positive IOD index often negates the effect of ENSO, resulting in increased monsoon rains in years such as 1983, 1994, and 1997. [28] Further, the two poles of the IOD – the eastern pole (around Indonesia) and the western pole (off the African coast) — independently and cumulatively affect the quantity of monsoon rains. [28]

  3. Wonders of the Monsoon - Wikipedia

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    Wonders of the Monsoon (also known as Lands of the Monsoon) [1] is a BBC documentary series which ran for five episodes between 5 October 2014 [2] and 2 November 2014, and aired on BBC Two. The series focus for a variety of locations around the world features including India , Australia and islands of the Pacific Ocean which are all the focus ...

  4. United States rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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    Guam's climate is moderated by east to northeast trade winds through the year. The average annual rainfall for the island is 86 inches (2,200 mm). [74] There is a distinct dry season from January to June, and a rainy season from July to December. [75] Typhoons frequent the island, which can lead to excessive rainfall. During El Niño years, dry ...

  5. Monsoon - Wikipedia

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    From May through August, the summer monsoon shifts through a series of dry and rainy phases as the rain belt moves northward, beginning over Indochina and the South China Sea (May), to the Yangtze River Basin and Japan (June) and finally to northern China and Korea (July). When the monsoon ends in August, the rain belt moves back to southern China.

  6. List of deadliest floods - Wikipedia

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    2016 Indian floods by monsoon rain India: 2016 1,000 [citation needed] 1961 Bihar flood India: 1961 992 1957 Isahaya flood, massive rain and mudslide Japan: 1957 941 Inuyama Iruka pond dam failure Japan: 1868 933 1938 Hanshin flood, mainly Tokyo, Kobe, massive rain and landslide Japan: 1938 915 Barcelona, flash flood: Spain: 1962 903

  7. List of flash floods - Wikipedia

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    115 to 129 millimetres (4.5 to 5.1 in) rain in 5 hours at up to 30 millimetres (1.2 in) per hour near Lisbon, Portugal [3] 4 January 1971: 32 monsoon Kuala Lumpur floods, Malaysia 9 June 1972: 238 dam failure Black Hills flood, South Dakota, U.S., 15 inches (38 cm) in 6 hours 31 July 1976: 143 thunderstorm Big Thompson River flood, Colorado, U.S.

  8. 2017 South Asian floods - Wikipedia

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    Widespread monsoon flooding occurred in the South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan from July through September 2017. More than 45 million people were affected by the floods, [1] including 16 million children.

  9. Monsoon trough - Wikipedia

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    August position of the ITCZ and monsoon trough in the Pacific Ocean, depicted by area of convergent streamlines in the northern Pacific. The monsoon trough is a portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Western Pacific, [1] [2] as depicted by a line on a weather map showing the locations of minimum sea level pressure, [1] and as such, is a convergence zone between the wind patterns ...