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nature's reset button, drowning droughts and resurrecting deserts on a meteorological schedule
means The recurring time of year, especially in tropical and monsoon climates, when rainfall is heaviest and most concentrated.
from A plain English compound of "rainy" (from Old English "regn," rain, plus the adjective-forming "-y") and "season" (via Old French "seson" from Latin "satio," a sowing or planting time — the moment the land was seeded). The pairing simply names the part of the calendar the rain owns, and it stands beside cousins like "dry season" and "monsoon," that last word borrowed from Arabic "mawsim," meaning, fittingly, a season.
- monsoon origin
- named from Arabic mawsim, meaning season
- frog math
- some frogs only breed during these weeks
- cherrapunji record
- India's wettest town gets 11 meters yearly
- smell name
- that rain scent is called petrichor
- flips wind
- monsoons reverse direction between seasons
southwest monsoon — india's rainy season from june to september, bringing 80% of annual rainfall to the subcontinent
wet season amazon — may to july flooding in the amazon basin, raising river levels up to 40 feet in some areas
east african long rains — march to may rainy season across kenya, tanzania, and uganda, critical for pastoral and agricultural communities