Analyse any five characteristics of monsoonal rainfall in india
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Explanation:
i. The extremes of humidity and rainfall are experienced almost everywhere.
ii. About 75 per cent of the total annual rainfall is from the Southwest Monsoon winds during the period from June to September.
iii. The rainfall from the monsoon winds is highly variable and quite unreliable.
iv. The monsoon winds may reach India much before its due date or may be considerably delayed.
v. The total amount of rainfall is either more than normal or much less than the normal.
vi. Some parts of the country always face either the danger of floods due to excessive rainfall or drought and famine conditions due to scanty rainfall.
vii. The variability of rainfall in amount, time and space creates unstable conditions for agriculture, which hampers the economy.
viii. The rainfall occurs for a few months in the year, i.e. from June to September (the season of the Southwest Monsoons).
ix. The rainfall is basically torrential in nature. Even in the rainy season of about four months, the actual rainy days are 40 to 45 days only.
Explanation:
Characteristics of monsoonal rainfall:
(i) Rainfall received from the southwest monsoons is seasonal in character, which occurs between June and September.
(ii) The summer rainfall comes in a heavy downpour leading to considerable run off and soil erosion.
(iii) Monsoons play a pivotal role in the agrarian economy of India because over three-fourths of the total rain in the country is received during the southwest monsoon season.
(iv) Its spatial distribution is also uneven which ranges from 12 cm to more than 250 cm. The beginning of the rains sometimes is considerably delayed over the whole or a part of the country.
(v) The rains sometimes end considerably earlier than usual, causing great damage to standing crops and making the sowing of winter crops difficult.