The four seasons in India are cool, usually dry winter, the hot summer, the southwest monsoon and the northeast monsoon. It takes much longer for a monsoon season to pass than it does to arrive. Even though India in prone to floods during the monsoon seasons, there are high risks of droughts for most of the year. Southwest India is one of the hottest places on earth. The southwest summer monsoon lasts for four months.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India#Post-monsoon

The people of Pune, India have learned how to survive arid, dry weather. They do something called "cloud seeding" which helps create rain. Since there is so little rain in Pune, they need to try to make it rain unnaturally to survive. Monsoons are very important to the people of India and surrounding southern Asian countries, but they have gone to drastic measures to keep safe from them. The people of Dhaka raise their homes up on stilts to avoid flooding. If they don't, they may have to swim to get from one side of their house to the other.

Monsoons in India - Entry 2 Questions

For my geography enrichment class, I am interested in doing a report on the monsoons in India. I will be looking through the Geography Alive book and seeing if I can find some information on the monsoons in India. Monsoons are very important to the people of India because, for most of the year, the air is extremely dry and unbearably hot, and the Indians pray for rain to come. My father has been to India, so that is why I wanted to do this project on India. India is my favorite country next to Japan, so that is another reason why I find India very interesting. The storms in the summer in India are important and vital for the people of India's survival. Sometimes, people have to walk for miles in this unbearable heat just to get to a water source. Life is hard without monsoons in India.

Monsoons in India

1- A pseudonym is a word to describe something but does not call that thing by name


2- RainIndia


3- I chose this pseudonym
because it describes the topic that I will be studying for this enrichment class.

Monsoons in India