Advancing Monsoon


 
 
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Advancing Monsoon

Advancing Monsoon (The Rainy Season): The low pressure area over the Northern plains intensifies by mid-June and attracts the trade winds. These trade winds originate over the warm tropical ocean in the Southern hemisphere. After crossing equator, these blow in the South—West direction entering peninsula as South-West monsoon. They cover the entire sub-continent except extreme North-West in just over one month. Maximum rainfall due to these winds occurs in North-Eastern India (mainly Meghalaya and Assam) and the windward side of the Western Ghats (Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai) as these winds bring abundant moisture to the sub-continent at a velocity of 30 kmph.

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Question : 1

______ rainfall of this season is received in the north-eastern part of the country.

Right Option : B
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Question : 2

During the south -west monsoon period, the moisture landen winds blow from ______________

Right Option : B
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Question : 3

Arrange the following cities in decreasing order of the rainfall they receive from South-West monsoon in summer months:

  1. Allahahbad
  2. Kolkata
  3. Delhi
  4. Patna
Right Option : A
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