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This is known as the Northeast Monsoon or Retreating Monsoon. While travelling towards the Indian Ocean, the cold dry wind picks up some moisture from the Bay of Bengal and pours it over peninsular India and parts of Sri Lanka. Cities like Chennai, which get less rain from the Southwest Monsoon, receive rain from this Monsoon.
Monsoonal rain continues across parts of India this week, having residents wondering how long they must wait for the monsoonal moisture to retreat. Monsoon moisture will be responsible for ...
During the post-monsoon or autumn months of October to December, a different monsoon cycle, the northeast (or "retreating") monsoon, brings dry, cool, and dense air masses to large parts of India. Winds spill across the Himalayas and flow to the southwest across the country, resulting in clear, sunny skies. [48]
Scorched earth – Destroying anything that might be of use to the enemy while retreating, or advancing; Turtling – Continuous reinforcement of the military front until it has reached its full strength, then an attack with the now-superior force; Withdrawal – A retreat of forces while maintaining contact with the enemy
The villages in Tamil Nadu are heavily dependent on monsoon rains, and thereby are prone to droughts when the monsoons fail. The climate of the state ranges from dry sub-humid to semi-arid. The state has three distinct periods of rainfall: advancing monsoon period, South West monsoon from June to September, with strong southwest winds;
However, a feigned retreat may devolve into a real one, such as in the Battle of Grunwald. Indirect approach: Having a minority of your force demonstrate in front of your opponent while the majority of your force advance from a hidden area and attack the enemy in the rear or flank (e.g., Battle of Chancellorsville).
News arrived that the monsoon had reached Ceylon – a very unusually early date. Judging they only had two weeks available they started off again on 23 May but with the news that the monsoon had already reached Darjeeling and was advancing at a surprisingly rapid rate. Two days later it had arrived at Everest itself.
Temperatures were 5-6 °C cooler than present and there was a general rain forest retreat. [16] [17] The summer monsoon during the LGM was very weak. [29] Glacial moraines from near the end of the LGM in East Africa show that the south-easterly monsoon was less wet during the LGM than the current dry north-easterly monsoon.