What is a monsoon?
Where do monsoons occur?
Why do monsoons occur?
How do they affect the southwest U.S.?
Where does wind flow from and where does wind flow to in a monsoon?
What are the economic effects of the monsoon?
- A monsoon is a rain season that is caused by change in wind direction. This drastic wind change causes extreme amounts of rain in parts of the world and can cause major destruction and or economic troubles.
Where do monsoons occur?
- Monsoons occur in many continents like South America, North America, Asia, and Africa.
Why do monsoons occur?
- The shift in wind direction (global wind patterns) cause the monsoon’s excessive rain. For example, in the summer a high air pressure area lies over the Indian Ocean while low air pressure is over Asia. The air masses move from the high pressure over the ocean to the Asian content and bring the excess amount of rain. In the winter the process if reversed, low pressure lies in the Indian Ocean and high pressure over Tibetan mainland.
How do they affect the southwest U.S.?
- The storms created in Mexico move up and reach Arizona and New Mexico area. It suppresses the hot summer temperatures and revives the vegetation, but it like every other monsoon brings heavy rainfall, hail, and powerful winds.
Where does wind flow from and where does wind flow to in a monsoon?
- High air pressure lies over the Indian ocean while Low pressure lies in the Asian continent. The high air pressure later flows into the low air pressure area, over Asia, combining and causing rainfall.
What are the economic effects of the monsoon?
- A monsoon can be the end of a drought, but it can also cause chaos. Alongside being the relief for a drought a monsoon can also bring floods and famines that kill. Having a monsoon come in late or even to weak can affect country’s economic situations. India is a great example of monsoons and a country’s economy, if it comes in powerless or late it can affect the agriculture and cause a famine, but if it comes in too strong it can cause chaos in a form of a flood or landslide.