In which season is onshore Southwest monsoon formed?
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Answer:
June
Explanation:
Answer:
june
Just as the Southwest gets sick and tired of the hot temperatures and extremely dry air each summer, a cyclical weather pattern brings much needed heat relief in the form of heavy rain and storms. This change in the weather can produce flooding and even raise the wildfire threat.
People typically relate the word “monsoon” with heavy rain, and although they do produce thunderstorms, the word actually refers to a seasonal wind shift. This wind pattern causes the weather to switch between humid and stormy to hot and dry.
Although monsoons are most commonly known for forming over India and Bangladesh, they also form along the Brazilian coast, Sub-Saharan Africa as well as northern Mexico and the Desert Southwest. Each year, after a hot and dry early-summer, the Southwest U.S. receives monsoon-fed scattered showers and thunderstorms. Historically, the monsoon begins during the first few weeks of July and runs through September.
The storms brought on by the monsoon typically produce up to 70 percent of the year’s rain for much of the Southwest and Texas. During an average monsoon season, cities across the Southwest typically receive anywhere from 1 to 8 inches of rain. The wettest monsoon in history was in 1986, dropping 20 inches of rain over Flagstaff, Ariz., while many of the driest years brought only trace amounts of rain.