For starters, it was monsoon season, and this meant even more power outages and traffic hassles than usual.
White-water rafting is possible year round, except during monsoon season from June to August.
In just weeks the monsoon season will flood several IDP sites, intensifying the humanitarian emergency.
Reasons for the slack demand include perceived high gold prices and a poor monsoon season depressing consumer demand.
Only in the monsoon season would they construct temporary huts from pandanus leaves, repair their boats and wait out the rain.
Rainfall during June to September's monsoon season in northern and central Thailand was up to 80% higher than the seasonal average, says the WMO.
There are Koreans who can still remember when this country was little more than rice paddies and villages that would flood during monsoon season.
But despite Fox's assurances that the bay would be returned to its previous state, locals said the bay suffered badly from erosion after 1999's monsoon season.
The effort apparently succeeded in flooding major Viet Cong supply routes and denying the use of trails and roads by extending the monsoon season over North Vietnam.
The impending rains, which mark the start of Myanmar's monsoon season, underscore the urgency for the country's government to get a handle on sectarian tensions in Rakhine state.
The situation in India continued to remain unfavorable for gold demand as the monsoon season appears to be on track to be the worst one since 2009.
The meteorological department has forecast "normal" rainfall this monsoon season.
Both start in Cairns and terminate in Kuranda, a hippy hamlet nestled between a World Heritage-listed rainforest and the Barron Falls, which roars to life in the summer monsoon season.
Last year, India received less rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season than usual, hitting western India, which has endured a two year-long dry spell, particularly hard.
Rainfall in India as a whole is 20% below the 50-year average and, with the monsoon season half over, India is facing the possibility of a full-blown drought in some regions.
Last year, India received below-normal rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season, and while it picked up in some areas from late August, large parts of west and south India didn't benefit.
"As the north-east monsoon season approaches, only 2, 100 temporary shelters for 4, 000 families have been provided, leaving at least 20, 000 families in need of protection from the elements, " a statement released by the group says.
It corresponds with a weaker south-west monsoon and a longer dry season.
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Large swathes of western, northern and southern India are suffering from drought due to a failure of monsoon rains during the summer season.
The ongoing monsoon tends to be the peak season for doctors as flu and other infections spread quickly in the humid weather.
But in China, hydropower dams on the Lancang (upper Mekong) will operate to store part of the monsoon flow and release it during the dry season.
But its samples were collected in July, in the low season for tourism and at the start of the monsoon when rain would help to purify the water.
The diving is phenomenal year-round, but the crossing to the reef can be rough in the peak rainy season (July to September) and from December to February when the northeast monsoon winds are at their strongest.
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