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By the time it reached the U.S. as a tropical rainstorm, it continued to produce torrential rain and trigger flooding over California and parts of the interior Southwest for days.
The last rounds of showers and thunderstorms associated with the North American monsoon are on deck as a big change in the weather pattern will soon end the tropical influx of moisture over the ...
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The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) underwent several intensifications during the warming following the Last Glacial Maximum, specifically during the time intervals corresponding to 16,100–14,600 BP, 13,600–13,000 BP, and 12,400–10,400 BP as indicated by vegetation changes in the Tibetan Plateau displaying increases in humidity brought by an ...
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Summer monsoon rain over eastern New Mexico. The North American monsoon, variously known as the Southwest monsoon, the Mexican monsoon, the New Mexican monsoon, or the Arizona monsoon [1] is a term for a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.
The jury is still out on whether climate change is affecting the intensity or duration of the North American monsoon, as the phenomenon is poorly simulated in global climate models, he said.