Monsoons are seasonal weather patterns that occur in certain places in the world, and have incredible impact on the lives of the resident people. The most well known monsoons are the ones that occur in South Asia, and particularly India. They have numerous effects on the communities and the ecosystem, both positive and negative. These effects can range from killing hundreds to keeping hundreds alive, and can happen at the same time. Monsoons are a vital part of South Asia, and one that you cannot change, unless you are armed with a planet full of greenhouse gasses (and even that can only go so far as to affect the strength of the monsoon).
Most people have a basic knowledge of monsoons, a basic knowledge that is, more often than not, inaccurate. Monsoons do not consist of torrential downpours, but rather are the air currents that happen to have the side effect of some humid, cold air being deposited over the land. This then deposits its humidity in the form of the torrential downpours¬¬¬. This cool, humid air is generated by the Indian Ocean.
To understand better, take a step back. In India (or any other place where monsoons occur) there are very hot summers that subsequently heat the ground, and the air above the ground. The air over the ground is very hot, and dries out almost completely. This is the dry season, and not a pleasant time of the year for any creature or plant. However, there is a huge amount of cooler, more humid air over the ocean. This air stays that way because the very top of the ocean can be heated up and evaporated, and this causes the humidity. But the rest of the ocean stays cold. Think of it as trying to heat up an ice-cold swimming pool using a candle. This cold is absorbed (for lack of a better word) int...
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...ad (as mentioned before), but they have been using modern techniques more and more. There are government-led programs helping remote farmers let plants grow in certain ways and creating terraces and small dams to trap monsoon water and force it into the ground instead of flowing away and being lost into the nearest river. Using these methods one can capture huge amounts of water-on the first day of the monsoon season there can be up to a foot of rain!
Monsoons have incredible impacts on the population of India. Indian farmers spend their life hoping the monsoons will not choose to come at an inopportune time. They can kill you, keep you alive, or make you go bankrupt. It all depends on when they arrive and how intense they are. They are a profound part of India, and everyone there knows it. It is hardly possible to imagine what India would be like without monsoons.
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Although when there is less moist air developing over the northern Indian ocean less clouds full of precipitation is moved to southern Australia and victoria greatly impacting the rainfall for the usual time periods over winter and spring.
These monsoons blow eastward from the southwest, carrying moisture from the ocean in great rain clouds.
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