as in downpour
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Here’s an overview, according to our experts: November through February, after the monsoon season, offers fine weather for much of the country, save for the Himalayan mountain states.
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Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2024
The weather starts getting chilly as the wet and blustery monsoon, bringing cold November rain, sweeps across Southeast Asia.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The monsoon — the seventh-driest on record — provided little relief: Sky Harbor Airport recorded just 0.74 of an inch of rain for the whole season.
—Hayleigh Evans, Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
The hottest month in Sedona is July, with an average high temperature of 97 degrees, though the summer monsoons, which usually begin in June and can last as late as August, bring cooling afternoon rains.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
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Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2024
The weather starts getting chilly as the wet and blustery monsoon, bringing cold November rain, sweeps across Southeast Asia.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
The monsoon — the seventh-driest on record — provided little relief: Sky Harbor Airport recorded just 0.74 of an inch of rain for the whole season.
—Hayleigh Evans, Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
The hottest month in Sedona is July, with an average high temperature of 97 degrees, though the summer monsoons, which usually begin in June and can last as late as August, bring cooling afternoon rains.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
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More romantic would be getting caught in a downpour on a hot summer day, racing to the front porch, and then making out.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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Taken together, all of it spoke to the arrival of the roughest system since the November downpours.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Southern California's latest weather deluge may be on its way – a hot spell that could drive temperatures into the low 90s before plummeting as the region reels from wildfires and toxic runoff.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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However, like the scenery of life, the ever-changing three-dimensional imagery in movies is so complex that many researchers saw no way to make sense of the deluge of fMRI data.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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Such a proliferation of storms is rare but not unprecedented, NASA noted, with meteorologists attributing the display in part to warm sea surface temperatures and weak wind shear conditions.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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The best time to do this is after a storm, as pieces of amber are dislodged from the sea bed by rough waters.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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And with rising temperatures come rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across North America, increasing drought in the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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And with the climate’s rising temperature comes rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across the continent, increasing drought on the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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