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Recent Examples of monsoon
The fire season was also worsened by a late and sporadic monsoon season, said Nikolai Balashov, a meteorologist for the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
Dust storms are nothing new in Arizona’s monsoon season, but this storm packed extra punch.
—Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Phoenix has been drier than usual during the monsoon season, while parts of southeast and north-central Arizona have had a fair amount of rain, Mark O’Malley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix, told the AP.
—Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
West African monsoons, which develop farther south on the continent, also begin traveling into the tropical Atlantic more frequently at this time of year.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
Dust storms are nothing new in Arizona’s monsoon season, but this storm packed extra punch.
—Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Phoenix has been drier than usual during the monsoon season, while parts of southeast and north-central Arizona have had a fair amount of rain, Mark O’Malley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix, told the AP.
—Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
West African monsoons, which develop farther south on the continent, also begin traveling into the tropical Atlantic more frequently at this time of year.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
Noun
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Thunderstorms of this type can also produce dust storms and intense downpours that lead to flash flooding, forecasters said.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The downpours prompted flash flood warnings to be issued across the region.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That just happened to coincide with a deluge of rain, enough to flood streets in downtown Miami and Fort Lauderdale, swamp some cars and send manhole covers and drains bubbling up with excess rainwater.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Pakistan has experienced a series of deadly floods through the summer monsoon season, but a fresh deluge of heavy rain in early September intensified the humanitarian crisis.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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None of the six summer arrivals have yet taken English football by storm and Wolves needed at least a couple of players who were battle-hardened in the league.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Heavy rain is not uncommon in South Asia this time of year, but experts largely agree that the frequency and intensity of cloudbursts have increased in recent years, in part due to climate change.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
21 Aug. 2025
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Warmer air soaks up water like a sponge, and all this extra moisture can result in extreme rain and sudden downpours like cloudbursts, especially when that air meets the mountains.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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