Talk:Monsoon

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The NOTRTHEASTERN monsoon in Tamil Nadu begins typically in kakka - What is "kakka"? Nik42 00:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• I was wondering the same thing... The Finnish word "kakka" means "shit" or "poo", so it might be vandalism. KFP 20:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• I removed that sentence as I was unable to find any other meaning for "Kakka" than the one above. KFP 15:02, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Kakka means crow in Tamil. It was obviously a prank Idleguy 17:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 References needed 2 Article Improvement Drive 2.1 Proper citations required 3 01-VII-2006 edit 4 Sources of moisture 5 Rain season vs Rainy season 6 Removed Information 7 Article Vandalization Alert! =( 8 North America drought?

[edit] References needed

This article needs references for the sections on the Asian monsoons. -- Beland 4 July 2005 21:25 (UTC)

In some weeks I will work on de:Monsun (monsoon), de:Enstehung eines Monsuns (basical monsoon dynamics), de:Indischer Monsun (indian monsoon), de:Amerikanischer Monsun (american monsoon phenomena), de:Afrikanischer Monsun (african monsoon/monsoon phenomena), de:Monsunkriterien (monsoon criteria/monsoon definition), de:Monsunwind (monsoon wind), de:Monsunregen (monsoon rain), de:Monsunwald (monsoon forest) and some others. It's not possible for me to translate this huge amount of articles (note: they are today only a base of what will come in future). The main point is there are nearly no basics in the english wikipedia I can build upon. But if you need informations about monsoons: ask me. --Saperaud 00:00, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

I was wondering how long monsoons last for? An hour? 20 minutes? Days?

Thanks.

A monsoon is a seasonal (climatological) phenomenon, so develops and subsides over a period of months with typically one cycle per year. Not to be confused with the individual weather systems that comprise a monsoon. So you could photograph a storm within a monsoon season but not a monsoon itself, which makes the image (or at least the caption) at the head of this article a bit absurd. (Deditos 12:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Article Improvement Drive

I've nominated this article for improvement, as I feel it has currently not got much beyond a stub and there's potential for it to be a really nice article. The article needs at least an more accurate definition and descriptions of each of the major tropical/sub-tropical monsoons: South-west Asian (Indian), South-east Asian, West African, North American, South American, Australian. I'll be giving it a go, but hopefully others will get on board. (Deditos 12:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC))

Unfortunately, it didn't make the cut. I'll try to do bits and pieces anyhow. Deditos 17:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper citations required

Yes, the article needs better organization and better defenitions. For instance, the southwest summer monsoon is part of the Asian/Indian monson. Hopefully, I will be able to add/edit a few statements and also include proper citations in the coming days. While talking about scientific articles, citations are of utmost important to avoid misrepresentation, misunderstanding and ambiguity.--Rocksea 03:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 01-VII-2006 edit

I've edited out the bit in the Indian monsoon section talking about children loving it and people going about in raincoats -- it's hardly a provocatively cultural thing that indians wear raincoats and rubber boots and use umbrellas in the rain. I've also changed the tone a little bit and alluded to the Mumbai floods of 2005. --219.91.152.10 03:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources of moisture

I can find no references to the Gulf of Mexico as a source of moisture for the North American Monsoon so I removed that from the article. All of the references I can find refer to moisture coming from the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Maps show moisture funneled between Baja California and the Sierra Madre Occidental from a source in the tropical eastern Pacific. Some of this moisture may do an "end-around" from the Gulf of Mexico but I can find no mention of it.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/monsoon.php?wfo=fgz Fred Bauder 20:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rain season vs Rainy season

I know nothing about this stuff, but I notice that Rain season redirects to one article, and Rainy season to another. Is this proper? Should we merge? Cheers. PizzaMargherita 16:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Information

There was a section about "God" on this page that had nothing to do whatsoever with monsoons. It was removed. March 6- 11:19PM EST. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shadowduck02 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Article Vandalization Alert! =(

The following was found in the opening of the article: "jesus loves you!!;;" I of course removed it and hopefully put back everything to the way its supposed (I hope) to be.

=)

74.96.186.207 20:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North America drought?

Vis-a-vis the fact tag added to the article. A quick google revealed little evidence for any "continuous drought status", in fact, this article preprint Contemporary Trends in Drought on the North American Continent indicates that severe droughts have affected a decreasing area of the South-west US since 1990 (Fig 1g). This doesn't disprove the "continuous drought" idea, but there's still no positive source for that statement. Deditos 12:00, 28 March 2007 (UTC).