Recent Examples on the WebThat is a significant achievement; more than 1,200 people – almost one-third of them children – have died since the monsoon began at the end of June. Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022 And according to a 2021 study global, heating is making the south Asian monsoon more intense and erratic, with each 1 degree Celsius rise in global temperature leading to 5 percent more rain. Damian Carrington, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022 And now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking nonstop havoc throughout the country. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022 But Moede says its possible that the seasonal monsoon will surge back to life on Thursday and last several days, producing high humidity from the coast to the mountains. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022 Since mid-June, when the monsoon began, over 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) of road, 130 bridges and 495,000 homes have been damaged, according to NDMA's last situation report, figures also echoed in the OHCA report. Reuters, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022 Looking eastward, the monsoon presses on with another chance of showers/t'storms. Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 Paddy is a water-heavy crop and, like India in general, is heavily dependent on the annual monsoon. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 Aug. 2022 During the summertime monsoon in the Desert Southwest, intense flooding can seemingly come from nowhere. Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim time, season