DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL IN INDIA
DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL IN INDIA
- Parts of western coast and northeastern India receive over about 400 cm of rainfall annually.
- However, it is less than 60 cm in western Rajasthan and adjoining parts of Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab.
- Rainfall is equally low in the interior of the Deccan plateau, and east of the Sahyadris.
- A third area of low precipitation is around Leh in Jammu and Kashmir.
- The rest of the country receives moderate rainfall while snowfall is restricted to the Himalayan region.
- Owing to the nature of monsoons, the annual rainfall is highly variable from year to year.
- Variability is high in the regions of low rainfall such as parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and the leeward side of the Western Ghats. DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL IN INDIA
- As such, while areas of high rainfall are liable to be affected by floods, areas of low rainfall are drought-prone.
MONSOON AS A UNIFYING BOND
- The way the Himalayas protect the subcontinent from extremely cold winds from central Asia.
- This enables northern India to have uniformly higher temperatures when compared to other areas on the same latitudes.
- Similarly, the peninsular plateau, under the influence of the sea from three sides, has moderate temperatures.
- Despite such moderating influences, there are great variations in the temperature conditions.
- Nevertheless, the unifying influence of the monsoon on the Indian subcontinent is quite perceptible.
- The seasonal alteration of the wind systems and the associated weather conditions provide a rhythmic cycle of seasons. DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL IN INDIA
- Even the uncertainties of rain and uneven distribution are very much typical of the monsoons.
- The Indian landscape, its animal and plant life, its entire agricultural calendar and the life of the people, including their festivities, revolve around this phenomenon.
- Year after year, people of India from north to south and from east to west, eagerly await the arrival of the monsoon. DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL IN INDIA
- These monsoon winds bind the whole country by providing water to set the agricultural activities in motion.
- The river valleys which carry this water also unite as a single river valley unit.
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