I am from Assam..one of the northeastern states of India.Our culture and festivals are based mainly on the monsoon rains

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.

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 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...

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 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.

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 😊

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

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.

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 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.

I am from Bangladesh.. And the monsoon air causes a lot of rain 🌧️☔ here.. and some low pressure causes life taking cyclone 🌀...

This video is Indeed the DNA of the soul

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.

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 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

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.!

This is the channel I've been hoping to find, for a long long time. Thanks for your effort, it's very informative.

2:27 - With the notable exception of Salalah, Oman, where during monsoon season the landscape greens up quite a bit!

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.

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.

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.

Memes, the DNA of the soul!

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.

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!!

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.

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.

I am from India. And Monsoon has just arrived in my city and it is raining since 2 days.

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.

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.

I live in the southern part of India called Tamil Nadu. We have two distinct monsoon seasons. The south west monsoon during June to September that you described, and another called the north east that follows in October and November. We have a long mountain range closer to the coast on the western side. The part to the west of these ranges as well as the Deccan plateau receives plenty of rain. This monsoon is the major one for the entire country. But for Tamil Nadu which is to the east of this western mountain range, it delivers less rain. Tamil Nadu benefits significantly from the north east monsoon. I guess the wind blowing over the Bay of Bengal brings in moist air. I can understand that in your larger scope spread across Asia, this may be a minor part. But for the local population, these distinctions are significant. Both rainy seasons have cyclones associated with them. Cyclones are more frequent over the Bay of Bengal in the east, than over the Arabian Sea in the west. These cyclones originate closer to Indonesia and move towards the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and some may even head towards Bangladesh.

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 KZfaq and the internet.

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!

Here I stand beneath the warm and soothing rain The droplets falling gently down on the terrain Wash away the sorrow, all the stains of time But there's no memory, it's only dry inside In the mud and sinking deeper into a peaceful life And it will come like a flood of pain pouring down on me And it will not let up until the end is here And it will come through the darkest day, in my final hour And it will never rest until the clouds are clear Until it finds my dreams have disappeared My dreams disappear

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 .

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!

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!

And it will come

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 💕

The Asian monsoon pattern also effects the Ethiopian Highlands. Ethiopia experiences a monsoon rainfall pattern, every bit as intense, as the Indian monsoon, in the summer months as well. The Sahel region of the African continent is also effected by the oscillation of the ICTZ from north to south and has another "summer rainfall peak and a very dry winter".

I wish some filler anecdotes by meterologists was this succinct and well in detail about when some weather related event occurs.

"It is the story of the world's largest continent, fighting with two oceans, played out in the atmosphere above" Wow

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thank you so much for adding subtitles! 💗 love the video so far, definitely subscribing

Wash away the anger

Very thorough, with great illustrations and 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, 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.

10:53, shape of burj khalifa

I had no idea how much rain parts of India get! I can't comprehend that much rain!

“Such is the power of the Monsoon.” -Subtitles

I live in Java, Indonesia. October-April is wet season, April-October is dry season. At the peak of wet season, western Java can get very high amount of rain, even Jakarta will be drown by big flood. But at dry season, eastern and central Java will get drought for one or two months. But in supposedly dry season in Indonesia, other part of the country still receive much amount of rain such as northern Sulawesi and Kalimantan.

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🙏🏼

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!

its amazing how he replays and hearts every comment

True Fact :- Indian temperature is not same everywhere in India ..... You can feel 40°C and -40°C at a same time in India 😒😒😒

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.

Indian Monsoon is called the unofficial Finance Minister of India because even the Finnce minister first studies the monsoon pattern because all economic decision are determined by it. bad monsoon would severly affect crops and hence productivity whereas a good and timely monsoon aids crop yields.

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

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

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.

great job!!! hope your channel grows more and more 🤗

At 7:33 it's interesting to see mountains in Central India protect the southern peninsula from the cold winds.

The most detailed explanation so far of mansoon and specially the graphics for the comparison. Hats off man.

Very insightful, Great video 👍👍

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.

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.

Im from northeast India with the highest rainfall region, weather pattern seems to be more irregular and unpredictable every year. wet monsoon is a season of landslides here.

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

Am I the only one here because of Metal Gear Rising? Specifically the third wind of destruction: Monsoon?

I'm a native of Kerala. We used to have year round rainfall or at least for 11 months during my childhood. Over the years, I feel that it has decreased in intensity and duration.

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.

I am from Sialkot Pakistan and here monsoon happens as well, but only in the northern parts of Pakistan that is close to the Himalayas, while the rest of country doesnt suffer much from the monsoon rains

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 am in southern India right now and last week it rained for 2 days straight!😔☹️🤧

I live in Kerala... June 1 is the official start of monsoon... Nice video🎥

Wow another fabulous informative video. Perfect level of detail to explain the fascinating mechanism behind the monsoon. Impressive graphics! 🤯

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).

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!

Best video I have ever seen about it! Im studying for my pilots license and it crucial for the understanding of the monsoons! 0

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?

The most perfect explanation and animation! Thank you a lot! Keep going!

🇵🇭 I love the 9 straight days of light to moderate rain.

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!

I am live in East Java, Indonesia, we enjoy rain season in range of last October to start of May, in my place Batu City, strong dry and cold weather along Dry Season, while rainy season is warmer and high precipitation, daily rain start afternoon sometimes it will rainfall on weeks long without any sunlight

Along the Changjiang river, there is a 2-months vacant off the middle of the monsoon during July to mid-Aug, called mid-summer dryness. It's because the Pacific subtropical high reaches into the Chinese mainland, at the latitude of about 30 N

Thank you for making this video! It made me really happy as a Geography enthusiast. I hope you gain more viewers in the future :)

I am from India,we celebrate monsoon through various festivals and keep fasts...

I am from Mumbai and having stayed in other global cities I can easily say. Mumbai has highest rainfall for any alpha cities of the world.

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😇

damn those intros get nicer and nicer!

it was awsm , but u could have covered North east monsoon season for indian subcontinet too because it affects almost 30-40% of the population of india ( south india) ...

Could you do a video on the North American Monsoon? Not as well-known, but could make some interesting comparisons.

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.