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Where it rains the heaviest
This is an attempt to explain why and how and what makes Cherrapunjee, known locally as Sohra, the one place in the world where the precipitation is the heaviest. As the southern winds pregnant with moisture from its long journey over the Indian Ocean is funneled into the Bay of Bengal, it reaches the blind alley of Meghalaya where there is no place to go but up. As the clouds rise, the drop in temperature causes their moisture to condense and provide a spectacle worth watching. Clouds break as they confront the heights of the Sohra plateau, pouring down in sheets to bring relief to the sweltering plains of Bangladesh but dropping most of the precipitation on Sohra and Mawsynram in its peripheries. The deluge barely visible through the driving rain in the distance is Bangladesh under monsoon flood.
Where it rains the heaviest
This is an attempt to explain why and how and what makes Cherrapunjee, known locally as Sohra, the one place in the world where the precipitation is the heaviest. As the southern winds pregnant with moisture from its long journey over the Indian Ocean is funneled into the Bay of Bengal, it reaches the blind alley of Meghalaya where there is no place to go but up. As the clouds rise, the drop in temperature causes their moisture to condense and provide a spectacle worth watching. Clouds break as they confront the heights of the Sohra plateau, pouring down in sheets to bring relief to the sweltering plains of Bangladesh but dropping most of the precipitation on Sohra and Mawsynram in its peripheries. The deluge barely visible through the driving rain in the distance is Bangladesh under monsoon flood.