Word: monsoonal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games at Nagano and monsoon failure in India--never materialized...
...that this crisis was avoidable. Far from being acts of God, the forest fires were set by Indonesian lumber and plantation companies who were trying to clear land. Indonesia's government could do little more than apologize to its neighbors. They might have to try a bit harder: the monsoon rains, which would douse the fires and cleanse the air, have been delayed by the El Nino climate system, and do not appear to be due for another month...
...Pacific to another. The rearrangement has reverberations throughout the atmosphere, causing droughts in places as far-flung as northeastern Brazil, southern Africa and Australia, while other regions, from California to Cuba, can be hit by torrential rains. These effects are variable. El Nino may weaken the Indian monsoon--or barely affect...
...might as well have tried to adjudicate a monsoon. That afternoon, Kathleen Treanor took the stand and told about kissing her four-year-old daughter Ashley goodbye and never seeing her alive again. After unspeakable days of waiting, Treanor recovered Ashley's body from the rubble, buried the little girl, and trudged on. Seven months later, someone called from the medical examiner's office. "He said, 'We have recovered a portion of Ashley's hand,'" Treanor testified in a trembling voice that rose as she fought to get through each sentence, "'and we wanted to know if you wanted that...
John Harvard's Brew House "would be packed, except there's that monsoon outside," said Derek Guivens, an employee. "We were hoping for a full house, but Mother Nature is not going to cooperate with us. Maybe next time...