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Monsoons

1. What is a monsoon?

2. What 2 major factors cause monsoons?

3. Give 2 reasons why monsoons could be considered a good thing.



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4. Give 2 negatives of monsoons.240 Die in India

5. Why did so many people die here? What exactly happened? Please be complete :)

6. After everything that you have read about monsoons, what do you think? Are they good or bad? Why?



1. A seasonal reversal or wind direction.

2. the movement northward from winter to summer of the huge upper level subtropical high pressure system.

3. Monsoon will be good because dry area will become more wet/moisture.

Decrease in Thunderstorm will also be good.



4. Severe Thunderstorms and Flash Flood Patterns.

5. heavy rainfall at the end of the monsoon season and flooding.

6. Monsoon can be good and bad. Bad because of the thunderstorm and, good because of the moisture.