Lahore gets a good share of Monsoon rains every year but the floods in September 2014 were a sudden and unexpected change in its usual weather. What do we call it?
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The term ‘monsoon’ is almost synonymous with tropical meteorology in part because countries which lay within the tropics/subtropics can be highly impacted by rainfall during a monsoon season. There is often a misconception of what monsoon rainfall is with thoughts of very intense and abrupt rainfall often associated. In fact in its purest form a monsoon is simply where the majority or annual rainfall occurs during one (sometimes two) seasons and should no longer be associated with a seasonal reversal of wind which is an artefact of previous research but no longer accurate for reasons we shall touch on later. So in other words outside of the monsoon season very little rainfall occurs and the climate is generally dry. The origin of the word monsoon derives from a Arabic “mausim”, translated as “season”, again pointing to the seasonal nature of monsoonal rainfall.