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Recent Examples of monsoon
Although the warming climate does not cause El Niño events, scientists say, warmer temperatures generally can exacerbate extreme weather, making monsoon storms wetter and heatwaves even hotter.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
The India film is unlikely to shoot this year due to the monsoon season, which runs through September.
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Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
11 June 2026
Early signs of how El Niño may reshape global weather patterns are starting to show in the late onset and expected weakness of India’s monsoon rains.
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Mary Hui,
Bloomberg,
8 June 2026
International dive teams that converged on the country's Xaisomboun province, where monsoon flood waters trapped the miners last month, were heading back home on Sunday, a search coordinator told ABC News.
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Aicha El Hammar Castano,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
The India film is unlikely to shoot this year due to the monsoon season, which runs through September.
—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
11 June 2026
Early signs of how El Niño may reshape global weather patterns are starting to show in the late onset and expected weakness of India’s monsoon rains.
—
Mary Hui,
Bloomberg,
8 June 2026
International dive teams that converged on the country's Xaisomboun province, where monsoon flood waters trapped the miners last month, were heading back home on Sunday, a search coordinator told ABC News.
—
Aicha El Hammar Castano,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
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Its front-facing design deters pickpockets, while the water-resistant fabric protects your phone from surprise downpours or sweaty adventure days—because no one wants their phone ruined halfway through a trip.
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Storms will fire in the mid-afternoon and will likely contain lightning as well as strong winds in excess of 40 mph and brief, torrential downpours.
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Avila Chevalier survived a deluge of attacks for previous social media posts that called for abolishing the police and prisons.
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Trade ministers in the United Kingdom are weighing the possibility of accelerating de minimis reform efforts as domestic retailers decry the deluge of low-value Asian imports flooding the British market.
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
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The camp did not timely evacuate in advance of the July 3-4, 2025, storm, despite ample opportunity to do so.
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The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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