Here’s an enigma of the swamp:
Why aren’t our summer rains called monsoons?
After all, India and the American Southwest have similarly distinct stretches of summer rains followed by a dry winter half. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that the “monsoon season” and “wet season” are just different names for the same thing?
Or are they fundamentally different?
Answer: A “low-level” sea breeze feeds our summer downpours. It switches back and forth on a diurnal basis from a inland-blowing seas breeze by day to a coastward-blowing land breeze by night. Once the upper atmospheric low sets in place over the Indian peninsula it rules the sky all summer long. Or in other words – both day and night …
The Indian sea breeze blows uninterrupted inland all summer long.
