National Womenâs History Month. By 1986, 14 states had already declared March as Womenâs History Month. This momentum and state-by-state action was used as the rational to lobby Congress to declare the entire month of March 1987 as National Womenâs History Month. In 1987, Congress declared March as National Womenâs History Month in perpetuity.
Heavy rains in China occur along the seasonal Mei-Yu (âplum rainsâ) front extends from eastern China across Taiwan into the Pacific south of Japan. Associated with the southwest monsoon, these rains typically affect southeastern China from mid-May to mid-June and northern China during July and August. Severe floods tend to have a substantial impact on agricultural output, which is reflected by the CPI, due to heavy food weightings in the inflation basket.
A flash flood after a thunderstorm in the Gobi, Mongolia. A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields.lash floods most often occur in normally dry areas that have recently received precipitation, but may be seen anywhere downstream from the source of the precipitation, even many miles from the source.