Monsoon is a seasonal change in winds and precipitation associated with differing heating of land and sea. There are three main types of monsoon: summer monsoon brings heavy rain between April and September as warm air blows from the southwest Indian Ocean toward countries like India; winter monsoon has dominant easterly winds and a strong tendency toward drought; and a dry monsoon occurs between October and April in South and Southeast Asia with rain-bearing winds from May to September and dry winds the rest. Monsoons result from differing annual temperature trends over land and water.
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2. What is monsoon
• Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind
accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but
is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric
circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric
heating of land and sea.
3. Typeof monsoon
Summer monsoon
• Summer Monsoon. The summer monsoon is associated with heavy
rainfall. It usually happens between April and September. As winter
ends, warm, moist air from the southwest Indian Ocean blows
toward countries like India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
4. Winter monsoon
• Winter monsoons have a dominant easterly component and a
strong tendency to diverge, subside, and cause drought. Both
are the result of differences in annual temperature trends
over land and sea.
5. Dry monsoon
• a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and SE Asia,
blowing from the south-west between May and September and
bringing rain (the wet monsoon ), or from the north-east between
October and April (the dry monsoon ).
7. south west monsoon
• South West monsoon is the rain bearing seasonal winds that flow
from Arabian Sea to the main land of India from the South-West
direction. They start to cross India around May, and as per Indian
Meteorological Department, the official monsoon season is between
June to September.