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1. 4/11/12 @iron_ammonite - Wildlife & TV: Monsoon hits India & me! A lifeline for wildlife, people & leeches
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Deadliest place on I've just heard from my friend Kalyan Varma in India that this years monsoon rains have started
Earth? Surviving pouring - a time of celebration and thanksgiving. In 2009 I visited Kerala on the south west coast
Cueva de los Cristales - to experience the full force of the monsoon as it arrived on mainland India. During the previous
The Giant Crystal
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few days we had endured sweltering temperatures in the high 50s (oC), so the onset of the rains
was exhilarating! Within minutes we were happily drenched to the bone. This was the beginning of
Mammoth Hall of our journey following the monsoon north as it passed over the Western Ghat mountains. Y ou can
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We get drenched as the monsoon hits Kerala
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The Western Ghats form a 1600 km long barrier that forces the moisture laden monsoon clouds to
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rise. In the process they deposit most of their rain, drenching the mountains with as much as 3 day s ago ·
9,000 mm (350 inches). No wonder that some parts of the Western Ghats are said to be the
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Pub Quiz underground hideaways for a brief period to breed in the first rains. By mid-July the monsoon has
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Zoologists mourn as On a normal year 80% of India's entire annual rainfall, as much as 390 inches, will fall in just four
any
Archaeologists rub their months - the rainy season. We may complain in Britain when we get a thimble-full of our annual footage
hands... 37 inches, but in India rain is celebrated. In 2009 it arrived at Kerala early, on 23rd May, but it was like
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I'm wearing blue socks for a particularly weak monsoon and it took several weeks longer than usual to reach central India. on
Boobies @galapagossip The rains are a vital lifeline, providing relief from the dryness and heat of June, but more the
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The Times of India closely monitors the monsoon
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The monsoon approaches Kerala
It's difficult to keep dry when it rains heavily throughout most of the day
A typical monsoon drenched town in the Western Ghats. Photo: Paul Williams
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David Heath filming in a drenched Indian forest
David happy in the mist - filming the rare Nilgiri Tahr 'cloud goat'
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The Purple Frog by Kalyan Varma
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