With a rain belt stretching across central China, floods were predicted to continue and to worsen in the northeast and along the Yellow River, which was expected to become dangerously swollen in the next few weeks, the official newspaper China Daily reported.
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The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere of the Indian ocean and western Pacific ocean roughly from October to March, and during this time the northern tropics experience a dry season in which precipitation is very rare, and days are typically hot and sunny throughout.
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By that standard, on the plus side, mainstream scientists say the models reproduce the main features of present-day climate, including the seasonal cycle, the comings and goings of monsoons, the seasonal shift of major rain belts and storm tracks, the average daily temperature cycle and many large-scale features of ocean circulation.
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It is however, severely threatened by climate change which has moved the winter rain belt south, and also by clearing for agriculture and through use of fertilizers, which is primarily driven by low land costs which make farming economic even with yields a fraction of those in Europe or North America.
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From May through August, the summer monsoon shifts through a series of dry and rainy phases as the rain belt moves northward, beginning over Indochina and the South China Sea ( May ), to the Yangtze River Basin and Japan ( June ) and finally to North China and Korea ( July ).
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:Unless I misread your question, this phrase from the article would answer that : " On the equator, there are two wet and two dry seasons as the rain belt passes over twice a year, once moving north and once moving south . " talk ) 00 : 17, 4 May 2008 ( UTC)
