Monsoon arrives in India approximately in:

Monsoon arrives in India approximately in: Correct Answer Early June

The correct answer is Early June.

Key Points

Monsoon climate in India -

  • India provides the world’s most-pronounced example of a monsoon climate.
  • The wet and dry seasons of the Indian monsoon system, along with the annual temperature fluctuations, produce three general climatic periods over much of the country:
    1. hot wet weather from about mid-June to the end of September,
    2. cool dry weather from early October to February,
    3. hot dry weather (though normally with high atmospheric humidity) from about March to mid-June.
  • The actual duration of those periods may vary by several weeks, not only from one part of India to another but also from year to year.
  • Regional differences, which are often considerable, result from a number of internal factors—including elevation, type of relief, and proximity to bodies of water.
  • Monsoon arrives in India approximately in the month of Early June.
  • The duration of the monsoon is between 100-120 days from early June to mid-September.
  • The monsoon arrives at the southern part of the Indian peninsula generally by the first week of June.
  • The season is dominated by the humid southwest summer monsoon.

Tropical Monsoon climate - 

  • Monsoons are the sea and land breezes on a larger scale.
  • It is the seasonal reversal of wind with the change in the heating of the earth's surface. 
  • Monsoon climate is characterized by distinct wet and dry seasons
  • They can be found in the Indian sub-continent, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, parts of Vietnam and south China, and northern Australia.
  • The basic cause of monsoon climates is the difference in the rate of heating and cooling of land and sea.

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