Invincible India

Rainfall in India (Mumbai)

Rainfall in India is usually around the monsoon season (this doesn’t mean that during the other seasons it doesn’t rain at all). The season takes places between the months of June and September. This period is also summer in Mumbai, India – India is around the northern hemisphere, where India is located, is facing the sun during daylight. Slowly, the monsoons come from the Indian Ocean and attack India. Of course, the rainfall in the north of India is less than south of India, seeing that the ocean surrounds the tip of the Indian peninsula, but most of the rain is focused around northwestern India. In other times of the year, the rain is less dramatic and causes less problems in India.

Poverty:
Cities in the northwestern India tend to have a high number of poverty, because of the damages the monsoons can do to the homes of people, but even so, many farmers depend on this rain. During the monsoon season, farmers make a lot of money because their crops grow well. Rainfall is considered as one of the key problems of some poverty in India, but it also helps the majority of the population by giving them a job in agriculture.

Ecosystem:
In many parts of India, there aren’t any irrigation canals that prevent floods, most of these are in urban areas. While the rain provides fields with water, it damages houses and forests. The decline of forest has brought fears to soil erosion that could then damage more houses and the fields. Without the forests, animals and other living species will loose their homes and therefore die of extinction. This chain will continue to affect companies that make their money through animals, and so, one by one, everything will fall apart.

Tourism:
India is mostly visited between November and mid-February because the other seasons are unbearably hot or are constantly occupied with grey clouds that cause the monsoon. In Octoboer, after the most of the monsoon is over with, tourists rush in. This period is still often hot and steamy, though it starts to get chillier at night. It is not suggested to go to Mumbai during the monsoon season, for all the ferries and other kind of transportation for tourism causes are stopped.

Health:

Every year, Bombay (Mumbai) receives numerous amounts of rain during the monsoon season.  Every year varies on how extreme the monsoons are.  One thing that is certain that happens annually in Bombay is that more people become depressed during this time, and where there are depressed people, there are suicidal people, so as you can imagine, suicide rates shoot up dramatically during this time of year.  Another annual phenomenon that occurs around metro Bombay, is flooding, like the monsoons, it is unpredictable of how much flooding they will receive. Usually, it is very little, about a foot or two, but in 2006, a huge flood swept through metro Bombay, killing around a thousand people, but that type of flood is very rare.