Question

The climate of India is strongly influenced by _____ winds.​

Answer 1

The climate of India is strongly influenced by monsoon winds

Answer 2

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Answer:

★ The climate of India is strongly influenced by monsoon winds.

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Explanation:

• A monsoon is not just any heavy rain that lasts for a long time. Rather, a monsoon is like a giant sea-breeze. A normal sea breeze changes daily, with the day-to-night change of land temperature as the sun rises and sets; monsoons change seasonally. Figure A compares seasonal shifts in the monsoon circulation. Most of the time during the summer, the land is warmer than the ocean. This causes air to rise over the land and air to blow in from the ocean to fill the void left by the air that rose. As you know, rising air leads to cloud formation and precipitation. These monsoon clouds that form are full of moisture from the ocean, so they can produce heavy rainfall for long periods of time. Because the land stays warmer than the ocean for most of the summer and the ocean is a constant source of moisture, these heavy rains last for months at a time. A monsoon climate is marked by dry winters and wet summers. About a quarter of the globe experiences a monsoon climate.

• Cherrapunji, India, affected by the Indian summer monsoon, is one of the rainiest places on earth with an annual rainfall average of 34 feet. Back in 1861, Cherrapunji got over 87 feet of rainfall during the year with 30 feet of it falling in July alone. The southeast United States is not affected by monsoon rainfall, and only averages about 4 feet of rain per year, distributed fairly evenly across all seasons.

• There are several monsoon systems throughout the globe, far too many to be discussed in depth individually. Some of the most famous ones are the:

• Indian summer monsoon – affects all of India. In the summer, the wind blows north from the Indian Ocean south of the Indian subcontinent and dumps heavy rain on the area from roughly April to October.

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