I am staying first time in Goa, and i am experiencing monsoons first time. It is raining so so much here, without a pause, i had to watch a detailed video on it! I can say that, you cannot believe it how much it rain, how it rains left right and center, day and night, unless you see it for yourself. It is so so unique. Just Amazing.
TBH it rained much less this year in Goa, so just imagine how much it rains here usually lol Monsoon season is the worst time to come to Goa, 'Winter' time is the best
@@Geodiodehabibi come to arunachal Pradesh and meghalaya, rainfall at goa will look like afternoon shower to you, it even rains in winter here, we hardly get 60 days of consecutive dry weather in a year!
I am from Jammu and Kashmir.. Northernmost state of India.. Monsoon is like a festival in India and people enjoy the rain but sometimes it leads to floods also but it's ok , overall monsoon brings greenery and Indian emotions are related to monsoon..It is believed that lovers are more romantic during monsoon..it is a song.. Mohabbat bharsa dena tu,savan (monsoon) Aya hai.. And many more.. By the way thanks for such a wonderful explaination...
10:40 funfact the State of Meghalaya, literally means Cloud(Megh) Home(Alaya) or the Home of the Clouds. The reason it recieved even more intense rain than the other states adjacent to the Himalayas is, It's actually situated on top of Garo hills(an ancient decaying mountain) which is just south of the great Brahamaputra river,which is just south of the Himalayas. So, all these factors magnify the effect.
I'm from Mumbai, but now live in Stockholm. Whenever they talk about 'how it's raining heavily out there' I always want to laugh 🤣 Brilliant explanation!
I live in the state of Punjab, NW india. Here we have two rainy seasons in a year. Less intense winter rains in the months of Jan & Feb and the intense monsoon in summers. The NE winds that blow over Punjab get their moisture from Black sea. This unique weather pattern help us to have two harvest seasons, one in April (due to winter rains) called "Rabi" and other in October (due to monsoon) called Kharif
@@akhileshpatel1715 haha No definitely not. We are a rain scare region in comparison to Mumbai. Had we got the kind of rains you have, we would have overflooded (pun intended) the markets with our harvests each year :)
@@JaspreetSingh-hb2mr rice and wheat are water insensive crops ad ideally shouln't be grown in punjab. water table is at alarming low level due to this.
I'm from the Philippines, and for the most part, we also experience monsoons similar to that experienced in India, but is arguably milder in comparison. The SW monsoon brings warm moisture-laden air from the Indian ocean and brings rain throughout the country especially in the western regions, while the NE monsoon brings in cool dry air from Siberia causing cool weather and some rains across some of the eastern regions. However, since we lie in the typhoon belt, a significant portion of wetness in the country comes from ITCZ and tropical cyclones
I like the NE monsoon or hanging Amihan because the air is cold. I remembered when I was a kid that I always wake up early in the morning to feel the cold air.
@@valiantecuasion5310 yeah amihan, i miss the times i had as a kid when the cool air of the monsoon was really felt, or i guess i just got bigger lol lmao
@@valiantecuasion5310 IKR. I remember waking up, preparing for school. Bathing in cold water when brushing my teeth seeing my breath form into visible condensation. Feels like I was in a cold country when in fact I live in Eastern Visayas. lol
Never thought that my home city, Irkutsk, is within a part of Asian Moonsoon system. Yes, I knew what we were inside a truly gargantuan Siberian Anticyclone, but god, how well being part of Asian Moonsoon system explains stupid massive amounts of rain in recent years within Southern Siberia, where I live. Thanks for explaining how these weather and climate systems work. It'll greatly increase understanding of the world.
Great to hear from you Anton, from that city on the lake, and the Trans-Siberian! I hope you get to enjoy my video about your country, just released. Stay warm in those winters!
I am an Indian and every year monsoon is eagerly awaited by everybody. It brings releif to urban population from the sweltering summers and brings much needed waters to the rural agricultural population. Personally, I find rains very likeable. Every year right from the first week of April, I just can't wait for monsoon to arrive. It is strikingly regular in my city. It usually comes in between first of June and fifth of June. There is a massive change in climate since the morning of first June... Well, mostly. Sometimes it plays spoilsport, like 2023 when it was delayed by 10 days and made the wait and heat unbearable.
Korean here, I hate our monsoons. It's very humid and miserable. Doesn't feel like it cools down at all, like a month long outdoor sauna while it rains all day every day. I much prefer dry heat, humid heat is the worst.
I'm from state of West Bengal in eastern India. We rarely see a weak monsoon in this part of the country. But heavy rain and flooding is a serious and yearly problem in our region.
I'm curious and this is totally not relevant subject at all, but do you watch a lot of monsoon videos? Like if there's a video that's on the North Sea or something, there's not a bunch Scandinavians commenting on that, not more so than there are commenting on any other kind of video, but on videos about like micronesia Indonesia, India, any countries within that vicinity, there are always people from the area of being talked about in the video commenting on it.
I think it's because of the algorithm xd and population. You'd find more people from India,Indonesia,Malaysia etc on the Internet because there are a lot more people who use the internet than let's say Scandanavia. China is geoblocked so you do not see much chinese people using youtube.@@Velereonics
As for India, I think a lot of us like to watch informational videos like these because it's basically what we studied at school. A lot of Indian people try to sit for their state/nation civil service examination which requires you to study a lot about your region/country's history,geography,political climate etc.
I am from Western Indian city of pune, 100 kms away from Mumbai in Western ghats mountains. You can easily see here the effects of monsoon. In rainy season mountains are totally green and we go for monsoon trekking but in dry winter season we face droughts and shortage of water supply every year.
@@akhileshpatel1715 One can argue that Pune lies in western ghats. It is just on the leeward side of the peaks. It is not exactly the plateau region and surrounded by lots of hills. Also, technically it is in rainshadow region but it does get decent rainfall as it is close to the peaks and the clouds passing those peaks do get affected by the further set of smaller hills causing rain.
Even though this is more professional and specific, this is the first channel that I can actually follow along with when the channel is explaining the climate in an area. Thanks you so much!
I am from West Bengal. Today I am watching this video when this years' Mansoon arrived from Bay of Bengal to upwards. Your explanation is really good. Most of the times, monsoon brings floods on several parts of NE India and Bangladesh. Also, each year, Cyclones effect this area including western side of India on the month of May. Will love to watch a detailed video from your end.
We’re sailors lived years in Singapore, now in Indonesia The monsoon creates a strong current with quite an impact when your at the wrong side of it. That’s noticeable when houses disappear in sea or even the best marina’s have waves rocking their docks. The monsoon plays a huge factor in how we plan our journeys within the region.
I am from Eastern Maharashtra. Here July and August are the wettest months each averaging around 350 mm of rains. Low pressure/Depressions from Bay of Bengal directly affects our region and incessant rains lash continously for days sometimes even extending to a period of weeks. July 2022 saw exceptionally heavy rains with average rainfall standing greater than 700 mm and some regions receiving rains more than 1000 mm in a single month. Monsoon are truly magical and the festivals are dependent on it. Even the Indian/Hindu calender works on seasons.
10:50 I really appreciate your efforts in explaining the scale of rainfall that occurs in the Indian monsoon. Thank you :) I live in the Himalayan foothill region of the north of India and the very initial rain signalling the monsoon is here today. What a pleasure it is to welcome the rains after 40°C scorching heat of May-June. Being just below the 2100m high lower-mountain ranges of the Himalayas, the Orographic-lift effect here does make this particular region especially rainy during this time. The greenery just spreads everywhere. Life takes over. Landslides become quite common which is the only bad part of it. I discovered your channel just today. It is people like you who create awesome content like this that I feel so glad to have access to RUclips and the internet.
Salute from a Geography teacher in Hong Kong. This explains the Asian monsoon system so well! And not to mention the incredible power of monsoon, bringing about rain as well as the problem of landslides as a major geological hazard in Hong Kong.
I loved being a student in Hong Kong. So many days off because of red and black rainstorm warnings😆 I now live in Melbourne, Australia which is far removed from direct monsoon impacts, although occasionally a summer cold front will advect enough tropical moisture down here for a few thunderstorms.
Stunning as usual! Thanks so much for that well prepared and excellent explained video. I didn't know Asian monsoon also covers Arabian peninsula as well. Is really impressive how the change in direction of winds can affect the vast majority of that continent. The graph of Mumbai is incredible I don't know what to say about the graph of Cherrapunjee. Unthinkable!!
@@Geodiode disappoint? Of course not! It was an amazing job as always. I may say thank you once again for giving me the opportunity of helping you. Always a pleasure!
@richardtorres2676 Cherrapunjee on the average, receives annual rainfall of almost 11 meters (11,000 mm). Hence, the epithet, the spot with the highest rainfall on Earth. The rainfall flows down to north into the Brahmaputra and to east into Barak that joins Meghna river. River Brahmaputra (Jumna locally) joins River Ganga (Padma locally) and Meghna joins as the last. Thus, the river system has the third largest discharge (after the might Amazon & Congo), for any river in the world.
Im from kerala. Monsoon enters india through kerala and in kerala we experience heavy rains of almost 6 months. Though the climate has been changed little now, but i really remember my childhood days where it rains for weeks without stopping 😊
Loved your explanation. The monsoon has always been my favourite topic related to climate. It's May 15, 2022 and I am waiting for the South-West monsoon to arrive here in Mumbai. Still 20-25 days to go for its arrival in Mumbai but the monsoon does bring in happiness and relief from the scorching heat to us Indians. Also, when it rains, it pours here in Mumbai which is on the windward side. The western Ghats (or Sahyadris as they are called in the state of Maharashtra) which are roughly 80 kms to the east of Mumbai run parallel to the west coast down till Kerala block these moist winds and the windward side is at the receiving end of these strong monsoon winds and they receive torrential rains throughout the monsoon months. On the contrary, the leeward side of these ranges receive scanty rainfall and some regions fall under the "rain-shadow region". Nevertheless, monsoon totally changes the moods of the people and we romanticize Mumbai with its beautiful monsoon rains.
@@Geodiode yeah obviously ... even the cyclone 🌀 named Yash will be stricking on 26 th of May ... very devastating cyclone indeed.. every year one or two cyclones take many lives of people ... 🥺🥺😔😔
@@anikghosh4271 and yet the fertile alluvium of the Ganges provides for some of the best farming land in the world, hence the large population. Being at constant risk of floods and cyclones.
This is such an amazing video! I was working on a presentation about Mysore's groundwater vulnerability and the effects of weather changes on it when i bumped into this. Really helped me a lot... New sub from Mexico!
Loved this video, thank you so much for making this awesome piece of scientific art!! As many have mentioned the monsoons are ingrained in our Indian heads and hearts. I was working in EU and the US for the past couple of years, returning to India just before the pandemic forced a global lock-down. After the miserable and locked-down hot Indian 'summer' April-May, I cannot express the joy on seeing the first blanket of monsoon clouds that passed over my head, my heart filled with hope and happiness like never before. I missed my monsoons in EU and in the US, when the monsoons arrived my heart was full, I was home after all! I wish I could add a pic of that scene - the first glimpse of monsoon clouds as I looked up in despair at the punishing sun. I live in the city of Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu, southeast India. Kerala is on the windward side, while we are situated on the leeward side of the Western Ghats mountain ranges in southern India which cause orographic lift similar to the Himalayan ranges. Much of my state in south-east India gets its rain from the winter monsoons which pick up moisture from the Bay of Bengal, receiving very little from the summer monsoons. Thankfully for Coimbatore, we are situated in a break in the Western Ghats mountain ranges called the Palghat/Palakkad gap, a lovely geographic feature (its called a shear zone by geologists). This means that despite being on the leeward side we happen to get some of the monsoon winds making it through the Palghat gap giving us rainfall from the summer monsoon. These clouds that escaped the orographic lift, swooshed past the gap passed directly over my head this monsoon season. An unforgettable thrill!
Great video, thank you for making it. 👍 I was born and raised in Bangladesh and ever since I was 2-3 years old I have loved the monsoon, rains, and thunderstorms. It is my most favorite season. Second is the Winter. Summer is the least favorite as temperatures sometimes reach a scorching level. Nonetheless, I still love my country dearly. It has given and taught me so much.
The soundtrack was really amazing showing transition straight from delhi to shanghai once again reaffirming that not only asia is vast diverse but also beautiful just hidden. Really glad to be in asia .
My grandson asked me what a monsoon was, so I was glad to find so much info on your channel. I’ve always been interested in geography and weather so I learned a lot, thanks!!!
thanks for the info! now i understand why the climate in japan and uk are very different despite being island nation facing directly towards the continent!
Wow, I got attracted to this video really well. Good editing. Monsoons in my country make me feel like I'm standing beneath the warm and soothing rain.
These videos are AMAZING. Truely. You deliver the information in such an incredibly digestible way, thanks in part to those amazing graphics, even displaying real data, and to your very succinct summaries. They are perfect.
in south india we have a common joke about weather, hot hotter hell. during the monsoon life went on, i hated the mosquitoes and wading to school but did enjoy turning the notebooks into floating streams of paper boats 😁 fascinating video, thanks very much🙏🏼
I believe there are two other monsoons on Earth - the West African Monsoon and the North Australian Monsoon. In the case of the West African Monsoon, the warming of Europe and North Africa in the summer pulls rain in from the South Atlantic, and in the case of Northern Australia, the warming of Australia during the southern summer pulls rain in from the seas around Indonesia and PGN. What is fascinating about the West African Monsoon, is that changes in the Earth`s orbit change the amount of sunlight that the Sahara receives in the summer. 5 000 to 15 000 years ago the Sahara received much more sunlight than today, and the West African Monsoon pulled rains in much further north. This allowed much of the Sahara to develop a savanna biome, and the formation of large lakes. At the time, Lake Chad was one of the largest lakes on the planet.
Fantastic video, having lived in Asia and traveled extensively throughout China in the Himalayas, and being an amateur weather buff, this overview and summary backed with factual data was an absolute delight. About 40 years ago, my mother gave me a book “chasing the monsoon” and it was a wonderful read. I will certainly watch this video several more times, as there is much for me to glean from it. In the meantime, living in the upper Midwest of the United States, last night, we received about 2 inches of snow. The first measurable snow of winter 2023.
I live in Western India and witness the fury and fiery as well as calm and composed monsoon every year. The information you have provided in this video is good, however, I was wondering why you did not mention anything about El Nino phenomenon which has a prominent effect on the variability of the monsoon received in the Indian subcontinent
Thanks for this brilliantly made video.. it's so informative. Here in India.. the #monsoon take such an enormous cultural & historic weight in our society that i can not even describe it here... from our legendary epics to historic stories to poetry to movies & songs.. the Indian Monsoon have left their impact not just on climate but also in our society. #PS- btw this year... the coastal city of Mumbai seems to be having rains almost non-stop.. it's almost end of September & Mumbai is still getting ridiculous amounts of rain... probably yet another proof of climate change
Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoy this presentation of the Asian Monsoon. Please let me know if you live in one of these areas, and how it affects your life, moods etc.!
Hey! many thanks for such a nice video. I am currently working on a research proposal for Vietnam. So could you explain to me in easier words why is it that the influence of the Asian Monsoon over south-east Asia, is not special?. As you said is not worth mentioning in your video.
@@_Hola_12 it's because the temperature and rainfall patterns found there are fairly typical of Tropical Monsoon and Savannah climates found also in Africa and the Americas. What makes the Indian Monsoon special is the much heavier monsoon rain. What makes the East Asian Monsoon special is that monsoon patterns go far into the high latitudes.
8:28 - Borneo, Northeast Philippine, Papua and East Coast Peninsular Malaysia in winter (Dec - Feb) tend to be more rainy (maybe when Siberian High across to the South China Sea, it's also bring a lot of rain as Siberian High absorb the moisture through the wind direction) than in summer (Jun - Aug).
Legendry Indian climate, the Himalayas protecting us from the cold winds of North and also tapping the mostiure winds from the south. Providing us with the life providing rivers which have been given divine and holy status in the very old , culturally rich and very successful in raising population civilization of Bharat.
14:23 correction: it's the second snowiest city in the world behind Aomori, another Japanese city at the northernmost point of Japan's biggest island, Honshu
@@Geodiode 300k people would be considered a big city where I'm from and you're calling it town-sized lol. It depends on what statistics you take in the end. Most statistics tend to agree that Aomori is number 1, Sapporo number 2 and Toyama number 3 but by Japanese standards Aomori is relatively small. I guess we're both right in the end XD
Thank you for this great video. I had been very interested lately about how the Asian monsoon worked. I am originally from the island of Puerto Rico and we had yearly monsoon. Incredibly enough, Spring was the driest there. Thanks again!
Thank you for this well-crafted, illustrated and informative video GD. Being a Geography enthusiast I'm glad to have come across your wonderful Channel and I look forward to watching your past as well as future content. May the Monsoon gods bless you!
I gotta watch this repeatedly to get the causes and effects down and rework my map's monsoons. "The monsoon is a taker as well as a bringer of life" is inspiring and poetic too! Definitely something that would be important to made up people too.
Yes, it is a complex subject, and remember that not all of it is fully understood, even today. Glad you liked the "poetry" ;) - I always try to end my vids with a bit of art...
I was over the Monsoon in 2013. World changed to Pangea and went to a new North America in different timing. Myan people migrated to this world. Now I may have to go back.
Such a detailed and comprehensive video. I did not gather this much information even after reading so many papers. Such a great job! Looking forward to more videos!
Is there some meaning to the orange and blue arrows you used to show the wind direction. It first appears in 2:36. I assumed blue was cool air and orange was hot air. Maybe I missed something.
Great video! I didn't think that the Asian monsoon is such a big climate system. Can you talk about the Amazon rainforest and its "flying rivers", which is also another big climate system that influences all of South America?
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I'm from Sri Lanka, since its an island and has very high mountains in the middle Monsoon winds gives a very divers climate areas around Sri Lanka. Plus we have the tropical climate as well which brings rain when doldrum strip passes through the island that is when we celebrate new year.
The starting of the monsoons always feel like a godsend at the end of very hot and dry periods. Foreigners often don't understand the joy Indians feel during the first rains of the year.
Great video! It looks like you missed the rainfall brought by the winter (North East monsoon) monsoon on the eastern coast of India. You had noted this effect for Japan.
Yes, it got pointed out. I was aware of it, but for brevity, I did not include it. I did include the Japan part, however, as I wanted to broaden the coverage of countries more equally and not focus so heavily on India.
7:48 I know why the wet season in Indonesia occurred in the opposite way, beside most of Indonesia is in the southern hemisphere, that wind from continental Asia pass through a vast warm sea of Bay of Bengal and South China Sea/West Philippine Sea (or whatever you name it), so that's why that dry monsoon wind becomes wet and humid monsoon wind, and it brings lots of rain in Indonesia. Wow it is very mindblowing, I really love the explanation of this video🤩, Thank you so much for the video, I really love this channel now hehe, regards from Indonesia😇
@@outisnemo8443 Yeah the vast majority especially in the island of Sumatra, Borneo, Central and Northern parts of Sulawesi, and Northern and Central parts of West Papua have that tropical rainforest climate which the rain is constant throughout the year. However, the further south the island from the equator, it has seasonal patterns of rain and those islands are Java, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara archipelago. And as I currently live in Java so yeah, I experience that seasonal pattern of rain vividly
@ferzy09 Yes, in southern parts of Indonesia we do have a distinct dry season, it usually runs from May to October, but the duration varies from one region to another, it can be shorter or longer.
No wonder why when celebrate a Christmas at Borneo tend to be a Rainy Christmas because Siberian High (dry monsoon wind) across to the South China Sea will be turn to wet and humid monsoon (also bring the slightly higher precipitation in winter).
I’m from Nagaland N-E India . One of the most remarkable biodiverse region on earth . The monsoon rain starts from 2nd week of April to last week of October which means higher diversity. The weather here is perfect all through the year round and we are blessed with the most beautiful natural landscapes. The N-E people as a whole is totally different from that of the mainland India . I’m a Naga and We Nagas are from Mongoloid race . Big love 💕
GeoDiode Yes ! Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Shillong is the wettest places on earth . It forms a vast plateau and this hills are teemed with waterfall which spring to life after every downpour. I’m a student and find your channel very informative. New subscriber here 👆👍.😊
El Hombre de oro exactly Bro ! Currently Assam and Bangladesh are facing flood crisis due to a lot of monsoon showers. Wishing you safe from Covid-19 pandemic. Tc
@@LochamoEzung thanks, nice videos of cannaught place and Doha. Those green and orange busses and traffic sounds made me nostalgic. I have been to both cities.
El Hombre de oro ohhh man ! That means you have been to India !cool ! So much Grateful ! ThankYou so much . I remember going on to my first trip to Doha n Delhi back to 1st year of college and My goal was to keep it as a memory here in RUclips. Thanks for viewing, poor quality videos though 😐🙏.
I am from bihar,an eastern indian state ,every year we face massive death, destruction and replacement in north bihar due to floods caused by monsoons. Still many of our important festivals falls in monsoon.
Here in the Philippines, we experience two different monsoons. In the months of June to October, we experience the wet season due to the Southwest Monsoon (Filipino: Hanging Habagat) that blows from the equator which is a warm and moist wind. We also experience frequent typhoons during those times and it can strengthen the Southwest Monsoon causing more rains. In the months of October to late March, the Southwest Monsoon retreats as the Northeast Monsoon (Filipino: Hanging Amihan) surges. Northeast Monsoon brings cool and dry winds generated by the high pressure in Siberia and Mongolia. During those times, we experience the dry season with lesser rain compared to the rest of the months and lesser typhoons. But the El Niño-Southern Oscillation can also affect the amount of rainfall we receive.
Small correction at 9:12, during summer the ITCZ is positioned roughly across central Arabia, meaning the wind direction is not strictly from the southeast. Southeast winds do blow across the southern sector of the peninsula and they're the source of much of the annual precipitation in the highlands of western Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia, and northeast winds blow across more northern and central areas of the peninsula, and they are in fact very continental and dry in nature.
It’s kind of strange after living in western NA for so long and having wet winter-dry summer ingrained in my head to find out that in most places it’s the opposite
wow its a great video btw i would like to permisission that i sreen shot a couple of your image and rain data in the video to put it on my note and thank you a lot for helping me 😊
Meghalaya translates to abode of the clouds. Which is apt cause my 2plus year's in that state were surrounded by beautiful winds, clouds and lush greenery
Im from Calcutta, India. East coast city. Ww are observing a change in the monsoon patterns across the country. June is getting less rains than previous, july moderate, August moderate, but September and increasingly previously unheard of, October is getting more and more heavy bouts of rains. Also , the Bay of Bengal cyclone season, one of the most destructive such systems in the world , deserved a mention. Perhaps a separate video on the phenomenon would be great. Thanks for the video though 😊🙏🏼
South Korean here. The East Asian Monsoon covered in this video used to be called "Jangma" from here. Not only that, we had two of them: once on early summer when rainy area sweep from south to north, and once again when the same rainy area sweeps back from north to south. the "summer" and "autumn" Jangma used to signal the start and end of hot, humid summer, and it was our thing to blame our Meteorological Agency to get these two timings wrong every year. Recently, they gave up. The Korean Meteorological Agency no longer declare official timelines for summer and autumn Jangma seasons. We didn't realize the whole world's climate was becoming a sh*tshow, because our (more accurately this region's) climate has always been a sh*tshow; a Floridian Summer and a Minnesotan winter in a landmass the size of Ireland, thanks to the Continental climate with a mix of monsoon. + during the past 4 years between this video's release and the time I am writing this comment, calling a Korean summer "rainy season" is slowly turning from a meme to an official thing. The fact that a 4-yr-old video about my region's climate is slowly becoming obsolete, and a Wikipedia link to "climate change" is added below the titles, are both quite poignant.
Is the Somalia's dry climate also affected by asian monsoon? Somalia is located near the equator, and is not affected by cold current, so I always wondered why it has dry climate instead of tropical one. Just as you mentioned in 8:43, Arabia is also affected by monsoon but it is dry since both wind come from continent. And that tendency could be extended south toward Somalian peninsula; if the wind blows from African inland in summer, and from Arabia in winter, the climate would be dry annually.
Great question. It, and the peru coast are the only dry tropical parts of the world. In the case of Peru that is answered in my video on Lima's climate. For Mogadishu however, it is unclear as the waters around the area aren't that cold. It must be that the winds never blow in from the ocean...
A correction: The Khasi Hills (home of Cherrapunji and Mawsynram) are one of the TWO wettest regions of the world, not solely the wettest as you claim. The other is the Choco Region in western Colombia, wich going mm by mm is even a bit wetter than its Indian counterpart. The difference is that the Choco isn't moonsonal but of a rainforest precipitation: constant, eternal massive rainfall but without reaching those insane heights of Cherrapunji's and Mawsynram's. How do you made those CHELSA graphics?? They're are amazing!!
In the Philippines, we have the area with the most typhoons however when a typhoon enters the PAR but doesn't hit the Philippines or hits away from the areas affected by the southwest monsoon affecting western central luzon and southwestern Philippines, it creates floods and strong winds like Typhoon Goring did to us with winds of 30-50 kph.
Yes, Typhoon Goring, known internationally as Typhoon Saola, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines and parts of East Asia in 2023. It caused significant damage due to heavy rains, strong winds, and flooding, particularly affecting agricultural areas and infrastructure.
Please make a detailed video about NORTH EAST MONSOON of India. It's mechanism and Climatology. The Coromandel coast ( From Chennai to tuticorin) gets rainfall mainly in November to January completely different from rest of India where wet season is from June to September.
I am from Assam..one of the northeastern states of India.Our culture and festivals are based mainly on the monsoon rains
Same Here In Maharashtra!
Same in WB
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Nice to meet you, my ancestors came from Assam but I was born in Bangladesh.
I am staying first time in Goa, and i am experiencing monsoons first time. It is raining so so much here, without a pause, i had to watch a detailed video on it!
I can say that, you cannot believe it how much it rain, how it rains left right and center, day and night, unless you see it for yourself.
It is so so unique. Just Amazing.
Yes indeed! The west coast gets so much rain in the summer, it's crazy.
TBH it rained much less this year in Goa, so just imagine how much it rains here usually lol
Monsoon season is the worst time to come to Goa, 'Winter' time is the best
@@Geodiodehabibi come to arunachal Pradesh and meghalaya, rainfall at goa will look like afternoon shower to you, it even rains in winter here, we hardly get 60 days of consecutive dry weather in a year!
I am from Jammu and Kashmir.. Northernmost state of India..
Monsoon is like a festival in India and people enjoy the rain but sometimes it leads to floods also but it's ok , overall monsoon brings greenery and Indian emotions are related to monsoon..It is believed that lovers are more romantic during monsoon..it is a song..
Mohabbat bharsa dena tu,savan (monsoon) Aya hai..
And many more..
By the way thanks for such a wonderful explaination...
Great to hear a local's perspective on this climate event!
10:40 funfact the State of Meghalaya, literally means Cloud(Megh) Home(Alaya) or the Home of the Clouds. The reason it recieved even more intense rain than the other states adjacent to the Himalayas is, It's actually situated on top of Garo hills(an ancient decaying mountain) which is just south of the great Brahamaputra river,which is just south of the Himalayas. So, all these factors magnify the effect.
Interesting - thanks for that added detail.
I'm from Mumbai, but now live in Stockholm. Whenever they talk about 'how it's raining heavily out there' I always want to laugh 🤣
Brilliant explanation!
I live in the state of Punjab, NW india. Here we have two rainy seasons in a year. Less intense winter rains in the months of Jan & Feb and the intense monsoon in summers. The NE winds that blow over Punjab get their moisture from Black sea. This unique weather pattern help us to have two harvest seasons, one in April (due to winter rains) called "Rabi" and other in October (due to monsoon) called Kharif
Those winter rains are caused by western disturbances, they mainly occur during October-April however their peak is durning winter months.
Do Punjab has intense rains? Asking from Mumbai!!!
@@akhileshpatel1715 haha No definitely not. We are a rain scare region in comparison to Mumbai. Had we got the kind of rains you have, we would have overflooded (pun intended) the markets with our harvests each year :)
@@JaspreetSingh-hb2mr rice and wheat are water insensive crops ad ideally shouln't be grown in punjab. water table is at alarming low level due to this.
@@shankysays yeah, i agree, i dont grow them here
I like that you keep the scales the same, so we can really see how much rain there really falls. 10:51 Great video!!
I'm from the Philippines, and for the most part, we also experience monsoons similar to that experienced in India, but is arguably milder in comparison. The SW monsoon brings warm moisture-laden air from the Indian ocean and brings rain throughout the country especially in the western regions, while the NE monsoon brings in cool dry air from Siberia causing cool weather and some rains across some of the eastern regions. However, since we lie in the typhoon belt, a significant portion of wetness in the country comes from ITCZ and tropical cyclones
Thanks for sharing the locals perspective
I like the NE monsoon or hanging Amihan because the air is cold. I remembered when I was a kid that I always wake up early in the morning to feel the cold air.
@@valiantecuasion5310 yeah amihan, i miss the times i had as a kid when the cool air of the monsoon was really felt, or i guess i just got bigger lol lmao
@@valiantecuasion5310 IKR. I remember waking up, preparing for school. Bathing in cold water when brushing my teeth seeing my breath form into visible condensation. Feels like I was in a cold country when in fact I live in Eastern Visayas. lol
u woke up and it's 4am, u r outside, u blow in the air and u saw smoke -thing u thought u will only see in movies. that was cool, i miss it
Never thought that my home city, Irkutsk, is within a part of Asian Moonsoon system. Yes, I knew what we were inside a truly gargantuan Siberian Anticyclone, but god, how well being part of Asian Moonsoon system explains stupid massive amounts of rain in recent years within Southern Siberia, where I live.
Thanks for explaining how these weather and climate systems work. It'll greatly increase understanding of the world.
Great to hear from you Anton, from that city on the lake, and the Trans-Siberian! I hope you get to enjoy my video about your country, just released. Stay warm in those winters!
2:27 - With the notable exception of Salalah, Oman, where during monsoon season the landscape greens up quite a bit!
I am an Indian and every year monsoon is eagerly awaited by everybody. It brings releif to urban population from the sweltering summers and brings much needed waters to the rural agricultural population.
Personally, I find rains very likeable. Every year right from the first week of April, I just can't wait for monsoon to arrive. It is strikingly regular in my city. It usually comes in between first of June and fifth of June. There is a massive change in climate since the morning of first June... Well, mostly. Sometimes it plays spoilsport, like 2023 when it was delayed by 10 days and made the wait and heat unbearable.
Thanks for sharing a local's perspective
When it finally arrives, do people lay down on the ground just to feel it after so much hot weather? I would, lol
Korean here, I hate our monsoons. It's very humid and miserable. Doesn't feel like it cools down at all, like a month long outdoor sauna while it rains all day every day. I much prefer dry heat, humid heat is the worst.
@@piperhurtado4945 lol. Kids do. I loved it much to chagrin of my mum. She was livid seeing us siblings rolling and dancing on the floor in rain.
I'm from state of West Bengal in eastern India. We rarely see a weak monsoon in this part of the country. But heavy rain and flooding is a serious and yearly problem in our region.
Thanks for sharing. Yes that can be tough, also think of Bangladesh!
I'm curious and this is totally not relevant subject at all, but do you watch a lot of monsoon videos?
Like if there's a video that's on the North Sea or something, there's not a bunch Scandinavians commenting on that, not more so than there are commenting on any other kind of video, but on videos about like micronesia Indonesia, India, any countries within that vicinity, there are always people from the area of being talked about in the video commenting on it.
I think it's because of the algorithm xd and population.
You'd find more people from India,Indonesia,Malaysia etc on the Internet because there are a lot more people who use the internet than let's say Scandanavia.
China is geoblocked so you do not see much chinese people using youtube.@@Velereonics
As for India, I think a lot of us like to watch informational videos like these because it's basically what we studied at school. A lot of Indian people try to sit for their state/nation civil service examination which requires you to study a lot about your region/country's history,geography,political climate etc.
I am from Western Indian city of pune, 100 kms away from Mumbai in Western ghats mountains. You can easily see here the effects of monsoon. In rainy season mountains are totally green and we go for monsoon trekking but in dry winter season we face droughts and shortage of water supply every year.
Basically Pune is not considered in western ghats, it shelters from ghats and lies in rainshadow region though. A Deccan plateau.
@@akhileshpatel1715 One can argue that Pune lies in western ghats. It is just on the leeward side of the peaks. It is not exactly the plateau region and surrounded by lots of hills. Also, technically it is in rainshadow region but it does get decent rainfall as it is close to the peaks and the clouds passing those peaks do get affected by the further set of smaller hills causing rain.
Even though this is more professional and specific, this is the first channel that I can actually follow along with when the channel is explaining the climate in an area. Thanks you so much!
I am from West Bengal. Today I am watching this video when this years' Mansoon arrived from Bay of Bengal to upwards. Your explanation is really good. Most of the times, monsoon brings floods on several parts of NE India and Bangladesh. Also, each year, Cyclones effect this area including western side of India on the month of May. Will love to watch a detailed video from your end.
We’re sailors lived years in Singapore, now in Indonesia
The monsoon creates a strong current with quite an impact when your at the wrong side of it. That’s noticeable when houses disappear in sea or even the best marina’s have waves rocking their docks. The monsoon plays a huge factor in how we plan our journeys within the region.
Very interesting. Thanks for that account.
I am from Eastern Maharashtra. Here July and August are the wettest months each averaging around 350 mm of rains. Low pressure/Depressions from Bay of Bengal directly affects our region and incessant rains lash continously for days sometimes even extending to a period of weeks. July 2022 saw exceptionally heavy rains with average rainfall standing greater than 700 mm and some regions receiving rains more than 1000 mm in a single month.
Monsoon are truly magical and the festivals are dependent on it. Even the Indian/Hindu calender works on seasons.
Thanks for sharing - sounds really dramatic!
10:50 I really appreciate your efforts in explaining the scale of rainfall that occurs in the Indian monsoon. Thank you :)
I live in the Himalayan foothill region of the north of India and the very initial rain signalling the monsoon is here today. What a pleasure it is to welcome the rains after 40°C scorching heat of May-June.
Being just below the 2100m high lower-mountain ranges of the Himalayas, the Orographic-lift effect here does make this particular region especially rainy during this time. The greenery just spreads everywhere. Life takes over. Landslides become quite common which is the only bad part of it.
I discovered your channel just today. It is people like you who create awesome content like this that I feel so glad to have access to RUclips and the internet.
This video is Indeed the DNA of the soul
Salute from a Geography teacher in Hong Kong. This explains the Asian monsoon system so well!
And not to mention the incredible power of monsoon, bringing about rain as well as the problem of landslides as a major geological hazard in Hong Kong.
I loved being a student in Hong Kong. So many days off because of red and black rainstorm warnings😆
I now live in Melbourne, Australia which is far removed from direct monsoon impacts, although occasionally a summer cold front will advect enough tropical moisture down here for a few thunderstorms.
Yeah that happened this September 2023
Stunning as usual! Thanks so much for that well prepared and excellent explained video. I didn't know Asian monsoon also covers Arabian peninsula as well. Is really impressive how the change in direction of winds can affect the vast majority of that continent. The graph of Mumbai is incredible I don't know what to say about the graph of Cherrapunjee. Unthinkable!!
@@Geodiode disappoint? Of course not! It was an amazing job as always. I may say thank you once again for giving me the opportunity of helping you. Always a pleasure!
@richardtorres2676
Cherrapunjee on the average, receives annual rainfall of almost 11 meters (11,000 mm). Hence, the epithet, the spot with the highest rainfall on Earth. The rainfall flows down to north into the Brahmaputra and to east into Barak that joins Meghna river. River Brahmaputra (Jumna locally) joins River Ganga (Padma locally) and Meghna joins as the last. Thus, the river system has the third largest discharge (after the might Amazon & Congo), for any river in the world.
Im from kerala. Monsoon enters india through kerala and in kerala we experience heavy rains of almost 6 months. Though the climate has been changed little now, but i really remember my childhood days where it rains for weeks without stopping 😊
Loved your explanation. The monsoon has always been my favourite topic related to climate. It's May 15, 2022 and I am waiting for the South-West monsoon to arrive here in Mumbai. Still 20-25 days to go for its arrival in Mumbai but the monsoon does bring in happiness and relief from the scorching heat to us Indians. Also, when it rains, it pours here in Mumbai which is on the windward side. The western Ghats (or Sahyadris as they are called in the state of Maharashtra) which are roughly 80 kms to the east of Mumbai run parallel to the west coast down till Kerala block these moist winds and the windward side is at the receiving end of these strong monsoon winds and they receive torrential rains throughout the monsoon months. On the contrary, the leeward side of these ranges receive scanty rainfall and some regions fall under the "rain-shadow region". Nevertheless, monsoon totally changes the moods of the people and we romanticize Mumbai with its beautiful monsoon rains.
Thank you, and great to hear a local's perspective!
Mumbai is a shitty slum bro . Dont romanticise it needlessly .
I am from Bangladesh.. And the monsoon air causes a lot of rain 🌧️☔ here.. and some low pressure causes life taking cyclone 🌀...
It can be a tough place to live. I recall that the cyclone you had there in 1971 was devastating.
@@Geodiode yeah obviously ... even the cyclone 🌀 named Yash will be stricking on 26 th of May ... very devastating cyclone indeed.. every year one or two cyclones take many lives of people ... 🥺🥺😔😔
@@anikghosh4271 and yet the fertile alluvium of the Ganges provides for some of the best farming land in the world, hence the large population. Being at constant risk of floods and cyclones.
@@Geodiode yeah obviously it helps much better ...
@@Geodiode Cyclone usually occurs in the pre-monsoon summer (Late March to early July) and post-monsoon Autumn (October-November).
This is such an amazing video! I was working on a presentation about Mysore's groundwater vulnerability and the effects of weather changes on it when i bumped into this. Really helped me a lot... New sub from Mexico!
I am live in Indonesia during Rainy season Asian moonson make heavy rain up to 5 inches during November-April and can be longer in La Nina phenomenon
Loved this video, thank you so much for making this awesome piece of scientific art!! As many have mentioned the monsoons are ingrained in our Indian heads and hearts. I was working in EU and the US for the past couple of years, returning to India just before the pandemic forced a global lock-down. After the miserable and locked-down hot Indian 'summer' April-May, I cannot express the joy on seeing the first blanket of monsoon clouds that passed over my head, my heart filled with hope and happiness like never before. I missed my monsoons in EU and in the US, when the monsoons arrived my heart was full, I was home after all! I wish I could add a pic of that scene - the first glimpse of monsoon clouds as I looked up in despair at the punishing sun. I live in the city of Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu, southeast India. Kerala is on the windward side, while we are situated on the leeward side of the Western Ghats mountain ranges in southern India which cause orographic lift similar to the Himalayan ranges. Much of my state in south-east India gets its rain from the winter monsoons which pick up moisture from the Bay of Bengal, receiving very little from the summer monsoons. Thankfully for Coimbatore, we are situated in a break in the Western Ghats mountain ranges called the Palghat/Palakkad gap, a lovely geographic feature (its called a shear zone by geologists). This means that despite being on the leeward side we happen to get some of the monsoon winds making it through the Palghat gap giving us rainfall from the summer monsoon. These clouds that escaped the orographic lift, swooshed past the gap passed directly over my head this monsoon season. An unforgettable thrill!
Great video, thank you for making it. 👍
I was born and raised in Bangladesh and ever since I was 2-3 years old I have loved the monsoon, rains, and thunderstorms. It is my most favorite season. Second is the Winter. Summer is the least favorite as temperatures sometimes reach a scorching level. Nonetheless, I still love my country dearly. It has given and taught me so much.
Very thorough, with great illustrations and graphics!
Thank you kindly!
The soundtrack was really amazing showing transition straight from delhi to shanghai once again reaffirming that not only asia is vast diverse but also beautiful just hidden. Really glad to be in asia .
Thanks!
My grandson asked me what a monsoon was, so I was glad to find so much info on your channel. I’ve always been interested in geography and weather so I learned a lot, thanks!!!
Welcome aboard!
thanks for the info! now i understand why the climate in japan and uk are very different despite being island nation facing directly towards the continent!
Wow, I got attracted to this video really well. Good editing.
Monsoons in my country make me feel like I'm standing beneath the warm and soothing rain.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for checking in...
Love the feeling when looking at the droplets falling gently down on the terrains
Thank you so much for the clear explanation of the Asian Monsoon!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for adding subtitles! 💗 love the video so far, definitely subscribing
The most detailed explanation so far of mansoon and specially the graphics for the comparison. Hats off man.
These videos are AMAZING. Truely. You deliver the information in such an incredibly digestible way, thanks in part to those amazing graphics, even displaying real data, and to your very succinct summaries. They are perfect.
in south india we have a common joke about weather, hot hotter hell. during the monsoon life went on, i hated the mosquitoes and wading to school but did enjoy turning the notebooks into floating streams of paper boats 😁 fascinating video, thanks very much🙏🏼
Nice ;-)
I believe there are two other monsoons on Earth - the West African Monsoon and the North Australian Monsoon. In the case of the West African Monsoon, the warming of Europe and North Africa in the summer pulls rain in from the South Atlantic, and in the case of Northern Australia, the warming of Australia during the southern summer pulls rain in from the seas around Indonesia and PGN.
What is fascinating about the West African Monsoon, is that changes in the Earth`s orbit change the amount of sunlight that the Sahara receives in the summer. 5 000 to 15 000 years ago the Sahara received much more sunlight than today, and the West African Monsoon pulled rains in much further north. This allowed much of the Sahara to develop a savanna biome, and the formation of large lakes. At the time, Lake Chad was one of the largest lakes on the planet.
This is the channel I've been hoping to find, for a long long time. Thanks for your effort, it's very informative.
Fantastic video, having lived in Asia and traveled extensively throughout China in the Himalayas, and being an amateur weather buff, this overview and summary backed with factual data was an absolute delight. About 40 years ago, my mother gave me a book “chasing the monsoon” and it was a wonderful read. I will certainly watch this video several more times, as there is much for me to glean from it. In the meantime, living in the upper Midwest of the United States, last night, we received about 2 inches of snow. The first measurable snow of winter 2023.
Thanks! And great story!
I live in Western India and witness the fury and fiery as well as calm and composed monsoon every year. The information you have provided in this video is good, however, I was wondering why you did not mention anything about El Nino phenomenon which has a prominent effect on the variability of the monsoon received in the Indian subcontinent
At 7:33 it's interesting to see mountains in Central India protect the southern peninsula from the cold winds.
Thanks for this brilliantly made video.. it's so informative. Here in India.. the #monsoon take such an enormous cultural & historic weight in our society that i can not even describe it here... from our legendary epics to historic stories to poetry to movies & songs.. the Indian Monsoon have left their impact not just on climate but also in our society. #PS- btw this year... the coastal city of Mumbai seems to be having rains almost non-stop.. it's almost end of September & Mumbai is still getting ridiculous amounts of rain... probably yet another proof of climate change
Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoy this presentation of the Asian Monsoon. Please let me know if you live in one of these areas, and how it affects your life, moods etc.!
Hey! many thanks for such a nice video. I am currently working on a research proposal for Vietnam. So could you explain to me in easier words why is it that the influence of the Asian Monsoon over south-east Asia, is not special?. As you said is not worth mentioning in your video.
@@_Hola_12 it's because the temperature and rainfall patterns found there are fairly typical of Tropical Monsoon and Savannah climates found also in Africa and the Americas. What makes the Indian Monsoon special is the much heavier monsoon rain. What makes the East Asian Monsoon special is that monsoon patterns go far into the high latitudes.
School uniform was raincoat...
🇵🇭 I love the 9 straight days of light to moderate rain.
8:28 - Borneo, Northeast Philippine, Papua and East Coast Peninsular Malaysia in winter (Dec - Feb) tend to be more rainy (maybe when Siberian High across to the South China Sea, it's also bring a lot of rain as Siberian High absorb the moisture through the wind direction) than in summer (Jun - Aug).
Legendry Indian climate, the Himalayas protecting us from the cold winds of North and also tapping the mostiure winds from the south. Providing us with the life providing rivers which have been given divine and holy status in the very old , culturally rich and very successful in raising population civilization of Bharat.
I am from India. And Monsoon has just arrived in my city and it is raining since 2 days.
14:23 correction: it's the second snowiest city in the world behind Aomori, another Japanese city at the northernmost point of Japan's biggest island, Honshu
@@Geodiode 300k people would be considered a big city where I'm from and you're calling it town-sized lol. It depends on what statistics you take in the end. Most statistics tend to agree that Aomori is number 1, Sapporo number 2 and Toyama number 3 but by Japanese standards Aomori is relatively small. I guess we're both right in the end XD
@@Ricky911_ he deleted his comment 🥺
The most perfect explanation and animation! Thank you a lot! Keep going!
Any plan on doing a video on El Nino/La Nina? I don't know anything about really though I've heard of it as an important weather system.
Thank you for this great video. I had been very interested lately about how the Asian monsoon worked. I am originally from the island of Puerto Rico and we had yearly monsoon. Incredibly enough, Spring was the driest there. Thanks again!
Glad it was helpful! Yes, it seems everywhere in the world weather varies dramatically from one year to the next. Climate averages are very deceptive.
Thank you for this well-crafted, illustrated and informative video GD. Being a Geography enthusiast I'm glad to have come across your wonderful Channel and I look forward to watching your past as well as future content. May the Monsoon gods bless you!
wonderful series, thanks so much ... i grew up in PNG and we had monsoons every summer ... hot and wet or hot and dry, that was PNG!
I gotta watch this repeatedly to get the causes and effects down and rework my map's monsoons. "The monsoon is a taker as well as a bringer of life" is inspiring and poetic too! Definitely something that would be important to made up people too.
Yes, it is a complex subject, and remember that not all of it is fully understood, even today. Glad you liked the "poetry" ;) - I always try to end my vids with a bit of art...
I was over the Monsoon in 2013. World changed to Pangea and went to a new North America in different timing. Myan people migrated to this world. Now I may have to go back.
Marvelous production!
Thank you for making this video! It made me really happy as a Geography enthusiast. I hope you gain more viewers in the future :)
its amazing how he replays and hearts every comment
@@Geodiode Unbeliveable!!!you actually did it.Even tho it's been an year since the vid came out.I've subscribed!! :-)
Such a detailed and comprehensive video. I did not gather this much information even after reading so many papers. Such a great job! Looking forward to more videos!
Is there some meaning to the orange and blue arrows you used to show the wind direction. It first appears in 2:36. I assumed blue was cool air and orange was hot air. Maybe I missed something.
@@Geodiode Thank you!
Great video! I didn't think that the Asian monsoon is such a big climate system.
Can you talk about the Amazon rainforest and its "flying rivers", which is also another big climate system that influences all of South America?
great job!!! hope your channel grows more and more 🤗
@@Geodiode no worries! will do.
damn those intros get nicer and nicer!
Memes, the DNA of the soul!
MY SWORD IS A TOOL OF JUSTICE
War is a cruel parent, but an effective teacher. Its final lesson is carved deep in my psyche: That this world, and all its people, are diseased. Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture, they are everything we pass on. Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. Envy, greed, despair... All memes. All passed along.
Best video I have ever seen about it! Im studying for my pilots license and it crucial for the understanding of the monsoons! 0
Thank you! I didn't know you had to study monsoons for pilot school. Which license are you aiming for?
Wow another fabulous informative video. Perfect level of detail to explain the fascinating mechanism behind the monsoon. Impressive graphics! 🤯
I'm from Sri Lanka, since its an island and has very high mountains in the middle Monsoon winds gives a very divers climate areas around Sri Lanka. Plus we have the tropical climate as well which brings rain when doldrum strip passes through the island that is when we celebrate new year.
Fantastic video man, your enthusiasm really shines trough! Very well edited on top of that!
Very insightful, Great video 👍👍
Glad you think so!
Cracking video - lots of great information packed into a short video. Thanks for the time and effort taken to make.
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks!
The starting of the monsoons always feel like a godsend at the end of very hot and dry periods. Foreigners often don't understand the joy Indians feel during the first rains of the year.
wow :) really enjoyed watching this , it’s so so interesting !!!!
Great video! It looks like you missed the rainfall brought by the winter (North East monsoon) monsoon on the eastern coast of India. You had noted this effect for Japan.
Yes, it got pointed out. I was aware of it, but for brevity, I did not include it. I did include the Japan part, however, as I wanted to broaden the coverage of countries more equally and not focus so heavily on India.
Asian monsoon is now unpredictable....2021-2022 were cool and wet years with short dry season. 2023 is hot and very dry.
7:48 I know why the wet season in Indonesia occurred in the opposite way, beside most of Indonesia is in the southern hemisphere, that wind from continental Asia pass through a vast warm sea of Bay of Bengal and South China Sea/West Philippine Sea (or whatever you name it), so that's why that dry monsoon wind becomes wet and humid monsoon wind, and it brings lots of rain in Indonesia. Wow it is very mindblowing, I really love the explanation of this video🤩, Thank you so much for the video, I really love this channel now hehe, regards from Indonesia😇
Isn't the vast majority of Indonesia tropical rainforest, with constant rain throughout the year?
@@outisnemo8443 Yeah the vast majority especially in the island of Sumatra, Borneo, Central and Northern parts of Sulawesi, and Northern and Central parts of West Papua have that tropical rainforest climate which the rain is constant throughout the year. However, the further south the island from the equator, it has seasonal patterns of rain and those islands are Java, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara archipelago. And as I currently live in Java so yeah, I experience that seasonal pattern of rain vividly
@@giftfarisia4361:
Yep, that's what I figured. I'd love to live in Sumatra or Borneo.
@ferzy09 Yes, in southern parts of Indonesia we do have a distinct dry season, it usually runs from May to October, but the duration varies from one region to another, it can be shorter or longer.
No wonder why when celebrate a Christmas at Borneo tend to be a Rainy Christmas because Siberian High (dry monsoon wind) across to the South China Sea will be turn to wet and humid monsoon (also bring the slightly higher precipitation in winter).
I live in Kerala... June 1 is the official start of monsoon... Nice video🎥
Beautiful Exposition covering all aspects of Monsoon, in 17 minutes. Thank you !
Thank you too!
I’m from Nagaland N-E India . One of the most remarkable biodiverse region on earth . The monsoon rain starts from 2nd week of April to last week of October which means higher diversity. The weather here is perfect all through the year round and we are blessed with the most beautiful natural landscapes. The N-E people as a whole is totally different from that of the mainland India . I’m a Naga and We Nagas are from Mongoloid race . Big love 💕
GeoDiode Yes ! Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Shillong is the wettest places on earth . It forms a vast plateau and this hills are teemed with waterfall which spring to life after every downpour.
I’m a student and find your channel very informative. New subscriber here 👆👍.😊
@@LochamoEzung yes, and I have been told that those rivers bring collosal floods in Bangladesh every year.
El Hombre de oro exactly Bro ! Currently Assam and Bangladesh are facing flood crisis due to a lot of monsoon showers.
Wishing you safe from Covid-19 pandemic. Tc
@@LochamoEzung thanks, nice videos of cannaught place and Doha. Those green and orange busses and traffic sounds made me nostalgic. I have been to both cities.
El Hombre de oro ohhh man ! That means you have been to India !cool ! So much Grateful ! ThankYou so much . I remember going on to my first trip to Doha n Delhi back to 1st year of college and My goal was to keep it as a memory here in RUclips. Thanks for viewing, poor quality videos though 😐🙏.
I am from bihar,an eastern indian state ,every year we face massive death, destruction and replacement in north bihar due to floods caused by monsoons.
Still many of our important festivals falls in monsoon.
Here in the Philippines, we experience two different monsoons. In the months of June to October, we experience the wet season due to the Southwest Monsoon (Filipino: Hanging Habagat) that blows from the equator which is a warm and moist wind. We also experience frequent typhoons during those times and it can strengthen the Southwest Monsoon causing more rains.
In the months of October to late March, the Southwest Monsoon retreats as the Northeast Monsoon (Filipino: Hanging Amihan) surges. Northeast Monsoon brings cool and dry winds generated by the high pressure in Siberia and Mongolia. During those times, we experience the dry season with lesser rain compared to the rest of the months and lesser typhoons.
But the El Niño-Southern Oscillation can also affect the amount of rainfall we receive.
Thanks for sharing the locals perspective
Here in the type 4 climate areas of the Philippines it jut rains rn its been raining for 5 days despite the drier winds from siberia
Small correction at 9:12, during summer the ITCZ is positioned roughly across central Arabia, meaning the wind direction is not strictly from the southeast. Southeast winds do blow across the southern sector of the peninsula and they're the source of much of the annual precipitation in the highlands of western Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia, and northeast winds blow across more northern and central areas of the peninsula, and they are in fact very continental and dry in nature.
Stunning and well explained! I'm from Colombo Sri Lanka. This monsoon weather affect us too, our agriculyure depend on this NE and SW monsoon system
It’s kind of strange after living in western NA for so long and having wet winter-dry summer ingrained in my head to find out that in most places it’s the opposite
smashbrother86 The inverse living in eastern Australia. I’m so used to the storms and the rain in the humid summer and drier winter until October.
+smashbrother86 No, the regular precipitation pattern is no dry season at all, but billions of people live in dry winter climates.
rt all my life living in Madrid and i thought it was normal to get rain in Winter and dry in summer but that is not common it seems
Same here in Chile lol. I thought the only places that got rain in summer were the tropics, but oh boy was I wrong.
@@themetalmastah666 ve el lado positivo, chile no tiene clima bananero tercermundista como los paises sudamericanos.
wow its a great video btw i would like to permisission that i sreen shot a couple of your image and rain data in the video to put it on my note and thank you a lot for helping me 😊
Meghalaya translates to abode of the clouds. Which is apt cause my 2plus year's in that state were surrounded by beautiful winds, clouds and lush greenery
Im from Calcutta, India. East coast city. Ww are observing a change in the monsoon patterns across the country. June is getting less rains than previous, july moderate, August moderate, but September and increasingly previously unheard of, October is getting more and more heavy bouts of rains. Also , the Bay of Bengal cyclone season, one of the most destructive such systems in the world , deserved a mention. Perhaps a separate video on the phenomenon would be great. Thanks for the video though 😊🙏🏼
Incredible explanation!
Brilliant.. fantastic production!
Thank you! Cheers!
South Korean here. The East Asian Monsoon covered in this video used to be called "Jangma" from here. Not only that, we had two of them: once on early summer when rainy area sweep from south to north, and once again when the same rainy area sweeps back from north to south. the "summer" and "autumn" Jangma used to signal the start and end of hot, humid summer, and it was our thing to blame our Meteorological Agency to get these two timings wrong every year. Recently, they gave up. The Korean Meteorological Agency no longer declare official timelines for summer and autumn Jangma seasons. We didn't realize the whole world's climate was becoming a sh*tshow, because our (more accurately this region's) climate has always been a sh*tshow; a Floridian Summer and a Minnesotan winter in a landmass the size of Ireland, thanks to the Continental climate with a mix of monsoon.
+ during the past 4 years between this video's release and the time I am writing this comment, calling a Korean summer "rainy season" is slowly turning from a meme to an official thing. The fact that a 4-yr-old video about my region's climate is slowly becoming obsolete, and a Wikipedia link to "climate change" is added below the titles, are both quite poignant.
Is the Somalia's dry climate also affected by asian monsoon? Somalia is located near the equator, and is not affected by cold current, so I always wondered why it has dry climate instead of tropical one.
Just as you mentioned in 8:43, Arabia is also affected by monsoon but it is dry since both wind come from continent.
And that tendency could be extended south toward Somalian peninsula; if the wind blows from African inland in summer, and from Arabia in winter, the climate would be dry annually.
Great question. It, and the peru coast are the only dry tropical parts of the world. In the case of Peru that is answered in my video on Lima's climate. For Mogadishu however, it is unclear as the waters around the area aren't that cold. It must be that the winds never blow in from the ocean...
"It is the story of the world's largest continent, fighting with two oceans, played out in the atmosphere above"
Wow
Ive lived in east and south asia and i can confirm there are only 2 seasons.
Dry and Sopping fucking wet.
:-)
I had no idea how much rain parts of India get! I can't comprehend that much rain!
I actually swore out loud when I saw the off the charts rain in India!! Lol
Some parts remain rainless consecutively for years leading to farmers commiting suicide.
@@nickfoory5662 droughts, plus usually the monsoon has wet parts and dry parts, the dry parts is also called the break-monsoon
A correction: The Khasi Hills (home of Cherrapunji and Mawsynram) are one of the TWO wettest regions of the world, not solely the wettest as you claim. The other is the Choco Region in western Colombia, wich going mm by mm is even a bit wetter than its Indian counterpart. The difference is that the Choco isn't moonsonal but of a rainforest precipitation: constant, eternal massive rainfall but without reaching those insane heights of Cherrapunji's and Mawsynram's.
How do you made those CHELSA graphics?? They're are amazing!!
I live in the Bay Area and we get warm, dry summers and mild wet winters. It is really nice weather here.
In the Philippines, we have the area with the most typhoons however when a typhoon enters the PAR but doesn't hit the Philippines or hits away from the areas affected by the southwest monsoon affecting western central luzon and southwestern Philippines, it creates floods and strong winds like Typhoon Goring did to us with winds of 30-50 kph.
Yes, Typhoon Goring, known internationally as Typhoon Saola, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines and parts of East Asia in 2023. It caused significant damage due to heavy rains, strong winds, and flooding, particularly affecting agricultural areas and infrastructure.
Astounding video. Fascinating phenomenon.
Please make a detailed video about NORTH EAST MONSOON of India. It's mechanism and Climatology. The Coromandel coast ( From Chennai to tuticorin) gets rainfall mainly in November to January completely different from rest of India where wet season is from June to September.
Thank you for this video❤️
-From a curious Indian