Monsoon set to travel with the sun to the southern hemisphere
- October 6, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Monsoon set to travel with the sun to the southern hemisphere
Subject – Geography
Context – Monsoon set to travel with the sun to the southern hemisphere
Concept –
- The monsoon travels with the sun and will now follow its seasonal trek to the southern hemisphere, putting the Bay of Bengal into another churn to set up the monsoon in reverse (North-East monsoon) and before moving to Australia for its next biggest play in the East and Far East.
- Changes in broad scale wind patterns across the tropical oceans in the region are a sign that the focus of tropical weather is starting to transition to the southern hemisphere.
Southward movement
- India’s monsoon trough had recently moved South over water due to the southward movement of the withdrawal process.
- Previously, it had lain over the landmass of the subcontinent and so was not conducive to forming tropical lows and cyclones over either the Bay or the Arabian Sea.
- Tropical cyclone ‘Gulab’ formed in the Bay before crossing the coast on September 26. It had then tracked westwards across the breadth of Central India before popping out in the Arabian Sea and being renamed as ‘Shaheen’ that went on to become a severe cyclone and crossed the Oman coast.
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