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

What's happening is they are breeding in the monsoon rains here.

But in October, remember, we're still in southwest monsoon, Maldives is still in the southwest monsoon.

I can be in the southwest monsoon.

Now, monsoon, the root of the word monsoon comes from the word season.

That's the inter monsoon, the time when the monsoon changes.

That's what brings the monsoon rain.

Then the front moves into the northeast monsoon.

The rain occurs, these are summer rains.

But the wind above is from the northeast monsoon.

October, November, December. That is not the northeast monsoon season.

Now, what I said was, you get the southwest monsoon going one way, and then it changes and you get the northeast monsoon going the other way.

So it comes from the southwest. It's a southwest monsoon.

This is a summer monsoon.

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light rain shower

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Spring rains bring summer flowers.

And we're starting in June. So this is the monsoon rain.

Just last week the rains broke. The short rains broke and it's raining there now.

This is getting ready for the monsoon in Bombay, India.

The rainy season begins in June.

The rainy season begins in June.

The rains ruined the harvest.

The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon, declared one.

It presents long drought followed by torrential rains.

So, if you've got India here, when the front is up above India you're into the southwest monsoon.

It seems like the rainy season is finally over.

Tom doesn't like the rainy season.

And they are breeding in the rains of Africa.

More than 80 of the continent has an annual rainfall of less than only Antarctica receives less rainfall than Australia.

In Sri Lanka, if you go down to the south coast of Sri Lanka, during the northeast monsoon season, you can see blue whales very, very easily.

And when it rains hard rain, I scream and I run in circles.

Pune experiences three seasons summer, monsoon, and winter.

The causes of the disaster are a complex mix, including those torrential rains, high population density and deforestation.

At Sainte Calixte, a provisional bridge was swept away by heavy rains.

The rain that fell during the last few days has filled the swamps.

And this is this latter part of the rainy season.

The insurgents were typically armed with rifles and machine pistols, and the attackers took full advantage of the monsoon season in order to evade pursuit.

The rainy season will be over in another two weeks or so.

According to the weather report, the rainy season will start next week.

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Parts of of Chile were flooded by torrential rains.

Now, when I talk about the northeast monsoon season, I'm sure many of you here know exactly what I mean, but perhaps some of you are not quite so sure.

So, the dragonflies are actually coming from India on the northeast monsoon, but at an altitude at 1,000 to 2,000 meters up in the air. Incredible.