Moderating the tropical climate of the region, it presents one of the best examples of the monsoon system in the planet.

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Additionally, a less active African tropical wave train is possible as a result of the disruption of the Asian subcontinent monsoon.

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So it's out near the dateline and in the central Pacific, and that moves a lot of tropical storm activity, thunderstorm activity, away from where it normally is north of Australia in the Monsoon region and the Indonesian region.

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