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  2. 2024 Wayanad landslides - Wikipedia

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    The Kerala government also established 45 relief camps in Wayanad, providing shelter to over 4,000 people, while the state health department set up a control room to offer emergency assistance. [48] Kerala's health minister, Veena George, stated that at least 1,500 rescue personnel, including forensic surgeons, were deployed. [49]

  3. Geography of Kerala - Wikipedia

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    Kerala's rains are mostly the result of seasonal monsoons. As a result, Kerala averages some 120–140 rainy days per year. In summer, most of Kerala is prone to gale-force winds, storm surges, and torrential downpours accompanying dangerous cyclones coming in off the Indian Ocean. Kerala's average maximum daily temperature is around 37 °C ...

  4. Parambil Bazar - Wikipedia

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    A brief spell of pre-monsoon Mango showers hits the city sometime during April. However, the primary source of rain is the South-west monsoon that sets in the first week of June and continues until September. The village receives significant precipitation from the North-East Monsoon that sets in from the second half of October through November.

  5. At least 24 dead in eastern India as temperatures soar - AOL

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    Monsoon rains also hit the coast of the country's southernmost Kerala state on Thursday, two days earlier than expected. ... The Today Show. Dick Van Dyke, 99, proves he doesn't skip leg day in ...

  6. Monsoon - Wikipedia

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    A monsoon (/ m ɒ n ˈ s uː n /) is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation [1] but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

  7. 2020 Kerala floods - Wikipedia

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    Kerala is located in the south-west of India and has a tropical climate with high annual rainfall caused by monsoon rain patterns. The majority of its annual rainfall (~80%) occurs during the Southwest Summer Monsoon where warm winds from the Arabian sea cause cloud precipitation over the Western Ghats mountain range. [ 6 ]

  8. Great flood of 99 - Wikipedia

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    Kerala received 3,368 mm of rain during the monsoon season (June to September), 64 percent higher than normal and is the highest recorded rainfall. [1] The flood was probably caused by offshore vortices along the west coast and perturbations higher up in the troposphere and is not attributed to any depression or cyclonic disturbance in the ...

  9. Malabar Coast - Wikipedia

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    The "Arabian Sea Branch" of the Southwest monsoon first hits the Western Ghats, [7] making Kerala the first state in India to receive rain from the Southwest monsoon. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Malabar Coast is a source of biodiversity in India.