Question

Mawsynram is related to
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Rainfall in the Khasi hills

Both Cherrapunji and Mawsynram lie in the southern part of the East Khasi Hills overlooking narrow north-south oriented valleys opening to the plains of Bangladesh in the south. The rainfall in Cherrapunji-Mawsynram is caused by the orography favouring a monsoon wind regime.

Answer 2

Slanting drops of rain slam the sodden earth like iridescent sheets of gunfire. They beat a steady drumroll on the houses scattered across the countryside. They glisten on the brown cows that stand as stock-still as the rocks. A pillar of cloud, like its biblical ancestor, leads the car I’m travelling in on a misty road that snakes into the distance. The wheels crunch over gravel and whirr through red mud as 26-year-old Rafelong, the Coldplay-loving taxi driver from Shillong, drives kamikaze-style to Mawsynram in the East Khasi Hills.