We're still catching the tail end of the monsoon winds.
In forty years he had never known the monsoon wind to fail for eight successive days at this season of the year.
By the time you reach Bombay the monsoon wind will have changed.
When the monsoon winds and river calmed he decided to use his elephants to help.
In the other six months, the port was deserted due to the rough and strong monsoon winds of the summer.
Monsoon winds occur because of the differential heating between the land surface and sea.
Hong Kong is in a sub-tropical area, and has monsoon winds.
Rain is only precipitation that is received from the monsoon winds.
Navigators had long been aware of the monsoon winds.
The summer monsoon winds were long gone by then, so there was no hope of an Indian Ocean crossing that year.