monsoon rains

She writes, "The seasons were so regular that you could almost predict that the long, monsoon rains would start falling in mid-March. "

But he said that farm output would be substantially stronger after bountiful monsoon rains, which are crucial for agriculture.

But the recriminations continue about how the monsoon rains turned into such a devastating setback for the economy.

But the rescue and recovery efforts could become more complicated as monsoon rains continued to fall across much of Pakistan Monday.

Agrawal said the late arrival of monsoon rains was unlikely to impact soybean yield for the season.

In Pakistan, just as emergency services said they were making progress, the monsoon rains have returned.

It's not a moment too soon, as the early south west monsoon rains are already darkening the sky.

banking on ample monsoon rains this year to boost crop yields, and bring down the prices of food, which hit the poor particularly hard.

In the Indian state of Punjab, farmers plant rice seedlings ahead of the summer monsoon rains, which are expected at the end of June.

The monsoon rains have been good so far this year in the key soybean producing areas of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Monsoon rains drive air upward, and that air usually comes down over the Mediterranean, producing the region's hot, dry climate.

Severe monsoon rains in the summer of 2010 led to a dam failure on the Indus River, which subsequently split in two.

Pakistan experienced the worst flooding in its history as a result of exceptionally heavy monsoon rains.

The rescue effort was aided by a slackening of the monsoon rains that caused the worst flooding in decades in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.

The floods started in late July as unusually heavy monsoon rains and a tropical cyclone inundated Thailand.

Isolated flooding incidents occur every year, but Punjab is normally capable of absorbing the monsoon rains.

The floods -- which were triggered by monsoon rains -- have killed at least 1, 400 people, the majority in the country's northwest.

Monsoon rains usually come from June to September, and are critical because more than half the country's farmland is not irrigated.

But as an apparent link between Asian monsoon rains and the Russian heat wave show, changes are rarely felt in isolation.

The poor monsoon rains are also expected to reduce farm output this year.

But there are concerns the shortfall in monsoon rains so far could adversely impact crop production .

Again, monsoon rains and floods in Pakistan have displaced millions, intensifying the need for shelter and emergency health care.

With more monsoon rains in the forecast, many left the area. Others waited, exhausted and anxious.

Okay, they lay their eggs where the seasonal rains are, the monsoon rains.

Centuries of monsoon rains, insects and tiny reptiles crawling over them, rushing away the grains of color.

This coastal region catches the monsoon rains, or khareef, during the summer months.

Myanmar are also buying planting tools and seed in preparation for the monsoon rains that typically come in May, Sitko said.

Karachi also receives the tail end of the monsoon rains.

This July, torrential monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in Pakistan.

The floods began in late July when unusually intense monsoon rains fell over northern Pakistan.

The monsoon rains arrived at the end of May as scheduled, but then slowed down.

India's monsoon rains are the main source of irrigation water for the country's 235 million farmers.

Much of south-east Afghanistan was once lush forest watered by monsoon rains.

They reportedly included a party from India who had feared monsoon rains might obscure their view at home.

India has been experiencing much weaker annual monsoon rains this year and searing temperatures.

Evacuees wade through a flooded area following heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar on Saturday, July 31, 2010.

Pakistan's monsoon rains normally emanate from moisture swept in over India from the Bay of Bengal.

With the arrival of monsoon rains, farming activity has resumed in the paddy fields.

Indian farmers are falling back on a local method to bring badly needed monsoon rains -- marrying off two frogs.

It is understood that, in the southern plains of Nepal, the monsoon rains often cause landslides and floods and other natural disasters.

Every year the monsoon rains trigger an enormous natural phenomenon.

Relentless flooding from exceptionally heavy monsoon rains affected 20m people, adding to the country's woes.

Officials say floods caused by monsoon rains have killed more than 300 people in Pakistan over the last three days.

Climate change is expected to lead to increasingly unpredictable monsoon rains and floods.

Vast reservoirs will catch the monsoon rains to replenish the aquifers.

Thailand is used to monsoon rains at this time of year, but not of the intensity of the past few weeks.

The athletes' village is built on the banks of the Yamuna River, which is swollen from monsoon rains.

They depend on the monsoon rains that fall between June and September.

United Nations officials say 11 districts are at risk of flooding, as heavy monsoon rains continue.

Heavy monsoon rains also are making life miserable for people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

The result was further chaos on roads clogged by rubble and monsoon rains.

Manila's rivers and canals are rising after a night of monsoon rains.

The monsoon rains started early this year.

An estimated 1, 600 people have died from over two weeks of record flooding in the country brought on by heavy monsoon rains.

An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.

On July 26, 2005, over 500 people died when monsoon rains caused flooding around Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Monsoon rains are expected this month to flood around 25% of Vavuniya's main camps, so 100, 000 of the 220, 000 people there need shifting.

Monsoon rains have submerged thousands of villages in a region that has not yet recovered from similar floods last year.

Last year the monsoon rains were more than 20 per cent below average, the worst in 37 years.

When the monsoon rains arrive, between June and September, a verdant carpet freshens tilled fields and pastures (at right. )

monsoon rains and poor drainage enable the disease to thrive in many indian cities