Crossword clues for monsoon
monsoon
- Seasonal Asian wind
- Rainy season from first of May, happening shortly?
- Rainy season in southern Asia
- A lot of wet weather now the weekend’s almost over?
- Wet season
- Seasonal wind
- Windy, rainy season
- What to expect between June and September in India
- Seasonal wind (south-west or north-east) of southern Asia
- Season of heavy rain
- Rainy-season wind
- Large-scale sea breeze
- Indian summer occurrence
- Indian season known for downpours
- Heavy weather
- Asian rainy season
- Annual South Asian rainy period
- Wet time
- Seasonal recurrence
- Kind of winds
- Rainmaker?
- A seasonal wind in S Asia
- Blows from the SW (bringing rain) in summer and from the NE in winter
- Any wind that changes direction with the seasons
- Asian wind
- Rainy season in India
- Wild weather thus overwhelming cricket side after half-day
- Sun now, then rain
- Sun now, perhaps — then rain?
- Sun about to end wet period
- Seasonal wind bringing heavy rains
- Seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean
- Seasonal rainy wind
- Seasonal Indian Ocean wind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monsoon \Mon*soon"\, n. [Malay m[=u]sim, fr. Ar. mausim a time, season: cf. F. monson, mousson, Sr. monzon, Pg. mon[,c][~a]o, It. monsone.] A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.
2. A heavy rainfall in India associated with the southwest monsoon[1].
3. The season in which the monsoon[2] occurs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "trade wind of the Indian Ocean," from Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monçao, from Arabic mawsim "time of year, appropriate season" (for a voyage, pilgrimage, etc.), from wasama "he marked." When it blows from the southwest (April through October) it brings heavy rain, hence "heavy episode of rainfall during the rainy season" (1747).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. 2 tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
WordNet
n. a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains
any wind that changes direction with the seasons
Wikipedia
Monsoon ( UK: ; US: ) is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase. The term is sometimes incorrectly used for locally heavy but short-term rains, although these rains meet the dictionary definition of monsoon.
The major monsoon systems of the world consist of the West African and Asia- Australian monsoons. The inclusion of the North and South American monsoons with incomplete wind reversal has been debated.
The term was first used in English in British India (now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area. The south-west monsoon winds are called 'Nairutya Maarut' in India. Extremely wet or dry events within the monsoon period have increased since 1980.
Monsoon is the fifth studio album and first major label album by American alternative rock band Caroline's Spine. It featured almost entirely songs that can be found on their previous independent releases but were re-recorded or remastered for this album. The single " Sullivan" climbed to #23 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart, as well as #14 on R&R’s Active Rock Chart. The success of this album also earned them a gig playing on board the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
Monsoon is a brand of loudspeakers, originally automotive speaker systems and later computer speakers. Monsoon was originally associated with OEM-sourced automotive audio speaker systems, notably supplied on a number of General Motors products and then later expanded onto other manufacturers such as Volkswagen. The brand name was also licensed to Sonigistix, a Richmond, B.C., Canada company, and applied to their line of computer multimedia speakers.
Monsoon is Preston School of Industry's second album includes guest appearances by Wilco members and Scott McCaughey.
A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind which lasts for several months.
Monsoon may also refer to:
Monsoon was an early to mid-1980s UK progressive rock trio that consisted of singer Sheila Chandra, record producer Steve Coe, and bass guitarist Martin Smith. Their song " Ever So Lonely" was a number 12 hit single in the UK Singles Chart in 1982.
Midge Ure ( Ultravox, Band Aid), directed the video for Monsoon's second single "Shakti", which went Top 40.
Monsoon's third single, "Tomorrow Never Knows" (a cover of The Beatles), featured guest appearances from Bill Nelson, Preston Heyman ( Kate Bush), Dave Balfe ( The Teardrop Explodes) and Merrick ( Adam and the Ants).
Due to differences with their label, Phonogram, Monsoon dissolved in 1982. Sheila Chandra started a solo career, Steve Coe continued writing and producing her albums, as well as Martin Smith, but often under the name Ganges Orchestra.
Phonogram "posthumously" released Third Eye in 1983.
A compilation of Monsoon recordings including several previously unreleased tracks was released on CD in 1995 by Phonogram's partner label Mercury Records.
Monsoon is a 1988 album by the Little River Band. It reached the top ten in the Aria chart and reached gold status in Australia.
Monsoon is a 1999 novel by Wilbur Smith.
Monsoon is a 1952 American drama film directed by Rod Amateau and written by Leo Townsend and Forrest Judd, David Robinson and Leonardo Bercovici. The film stars Ursula Thiess, Diana Douglas, George Nader, Ellen Corby, Philip Stainton, Myron Healey and Eric Pohlmann. The film was released on December 14, 1952, by United Artists.
Monsoon is a 2014 Canadian documentary film by Sturla Gunnarsson about the monsoon weather system in India.
The film was shot in India in the extra-high-definition 4K format with Red Epic cameras.
The film was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF. Subsequently the film finished first in the audience balloting, of the features in "Canada's Top Ten".
The film will reportedly begin its theatrical run in Toronto on February 27, 2015; meanwhile Gunnarsson was quoted as being in discussions with an American distributor, following Monsoon's United States premiere at the 2015 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Monsoon is a 2015 Indian Bollywood romantic drama film produced by Mahendra Dhariwal and Jitender Gulati and directed by Suzad Iqbal Khan. The film stars Srishti Sharma, Sudhanshu, Shawar Ali, Vijay Singh and Raja Gulati. The film was given an A certificate, due to bold scenes. It was released on 20 February 2015. Although the film emerged as a box office disaster, it did well in the C centres where it was targeted. The story of the film is loosely based on an Italian romantic drama film Malèna.
Usage examples of "monsoon".
Lingering monsoons had flooded the lowlands of the Peninsula and piled the snowdrifts high round about the Tower of the Archimage on the southern slope of Mount Brom.
General Turbery, seems to be aware that the Time of Heat will not last forever, and we must be across the border into Kallio and dealing with Chardin Sher before the monsoons begin.
Indeed, it would have been very extraordinary if they did not, when leaving the Persian Gulf, make straight for the East Coast, seeing that the north-east monsoon blows for six months in the year dead in that direction, while for the other six months it blows back again.
These fairs were held only during the dry seasons, since the monsoons roaring up from the Southern Sea otherwise made passage of the bogland watercourses impossible.
It is true that Bimbisara did create a lot of dirty lanes, which turn to mud in monsoon weather, but he never managed to maintain even the great caravan route from Champa to Taxila.
If natural obstacles of terrain and climate were extreme, human obstacles raised by the mutual antagonisms and soured morale of reluctant cobelligerents were no less so, and the monsoon of the summer months thickened the misery.
The effort to bring supplies to the roadhead for those who were left bogged down in mud during the monsoon.
By: Mercedes Lackey Synopsis: In Storm Rising, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the Kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs-terrifying creatures out of nightmare.
Not only do the monsoon rains feed that water-hungry crop but when the rains stop, the flatness of the country makes it easy for farmers to irrigate their fields with water from the always deep, swift, surprisingly cold Ganges River.
The sky, which had been cloudless throughout the days of their journeying, now showed a few long pearly streamers of cirrus reaching forth from the south, the harbingers of the winter monsoon.
There would surely be a storm before night, one of the harbingers of the winter monsoons that were due in only two weeks.
And finally, in March, when the monsoons came, she began slowly to feel human.
We had built underground, and then the monsoons came and washed it all away.
The river was high, but it had still not filled the steep-sided ravine that successive monsoons had scarred into the flat earth and Sharpe guessed that the river was only at half flood.
The city of Bodach had been engineered by the ancients to take into account the extremely fierce monsoons that swept across the desert-then the sea-during the very brief storm seasons, but in all the years that the city had been abandoned, the gutters had cracked and been filled with wind-blown sand.