Cherrapunji is about 90-100 kilometers far away from my home sits on the southern tip of the Khasi Hills, facing Bangladesh. Cherrapunji's yearly average rainfall stands at 463 inches. Can you imagine how much is it? New York average annual rainfall is 47 inches. So there rains ten times more than New York. The cliffs of Cherrapunji receive heavy rainfall due to monsoon winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal. Thus, the region is home to extremely wet weather.
Cherrapunji receives both the Southwest and Northeast monsoon showers which give it a single monsoon season. It lies in the windward side of the Khasi Hills.
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Cherrapunjee receives rains from the Bay of Bengal arm of the Indian Summer Monsoon. The monsoon clouds fly unhindered over the plains of Bangladesh for about 400 km. Thereafter, they hit the Khasi Hills which abruptly rise out of the plains to reach a height of about 1370 m above mean sea level within of 2 to 5 km. The geography of the hills with many deep valleys channels the low-flying (150-300 m) moisture-laden clouds from a wide area to converge over Cherrapunji. The winds push the rain clouds through these gorges and up the steep slopes. The rapid ascent of the clouds into the upper atmosphere hastens the cooling and helps vapours to condense. Most of Cherrapunji's rain is the result of air being lifted as a large body of water vapour.
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The locals living in and around Cherrapunjee are known as Khasis. The Khasi people are a scheduled tribe. An interesting matter is that there exist matriline culture. Do you know what is matriline? A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers.
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Cherrapunji has a very close competitor on the island of Kauai in Hawai'i-it averages 455 inches/year with the rain due to it's very favorable location and elevation on the windward side of the island.
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Thank you Steve for the information. Yeah the island of kauai is one of the wettest spots on earth.
Cherrapunji also holds two Guinness world records for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single year: 905 inches of rainfall between August 1860 and July 1861 and for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single month: 370 inches in July 1861.
Cherrapunji also holds two Guinness world records for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single year: 905 inches of rainfall between August 1860 and July 1861 and for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single month: 370 inches in July 1861.
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Aslkahuna wrote:Cherrapunji has a very close competitor on the island of Kauai in Hawai'i-it averages 455 inches/year with the rain due to it's very favorable location and elevation on the windward side of the island.
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Mount Wai'ale'ale's rainfall is spread evenly throughout the year. Cherrapunji is very dry in the winter, but very wet in the summer, the summer monsoon rain season.
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Rezwanur wrote:Thank you Steve for the information. Yeah the island of kauai is one of the wettest spots on earth.
Cherrapunji also holds two Guinness world records for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single year: 905 inches of rainfall between August 1860 and July 1861 and for receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single month: 370 inches in July 1861.
370 inches of rain in a month is a lot! That is 8 years worth of rain for New York!
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This source states that Tutunendo in Colombia gets about half of an inch more rain annually than Cherrapunji.
If this is correct, the wettest and driest (Arica, Chile) places on earth are on the same continent and are only about 1700 miles apart!
EDIT: Actually, additional research has revealed that the driest place on earth is actually a region of Antarctica called The Dry Valleys which hasn’t seen rain in over 2 million years!
If this is correct, the wettest and driest (Arica, Chile) places on earth are on the same continent and are only about 1700 miles apart!
EDIT: Actually, additional research has revealed that the driest place on earth is actually a region of Antarctica called The Dry Valleys which hasn’t seen rain in over 2 million years!
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yeah according to that source Tutunendo gets 0.4 inch higher.
hasn’t been raining in over 2 million years!! is there any creature survive?
hasn’t been raining in over 2 million years!! is there any creature survive?
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Cherrapunji situated in North East India in the Meghalaya State (separated from the state of Assam in 1972, Meghalaya means “Home of the clouds”) in the Khasi Hills, is unbelievably the wettest place on the planet earth
which receives the maximum rainfall in the world, holding a record that it once rained continuously every single day for two years. It made a world record of 1,041 inches of rain in 1861. North eastern part of India is full of natural treasures with lush green canopies, valleys, mountains, rocky hills, rivers, diverse flora and fauna. The flora and fauna have colorful and rare orchids, ferns, moss plants and dense wood forests in small patches. Orchards of oranges and pineapple are the common sight of Cherrapunji. It is a 60 kilometre drive from the state’s capital Shillong, and is situated 1290 metres above sea level.
which receives the maximum rainfall in the world, holding a record that it once rained continuously every single day for two years. It made a world record of 1,041 inches of rain in 1861. North eastern part of India is full of natural treasures with lush green canopies, valleys, mountains, rocky hills, rivers, diverse flora and fauna. The flora and fauna have colorful and rare orchids, ferns, moss plants and dense wood forests in small patches. Orchards of oranges and pineapple are the common sight of Cherrapunji. It is a 60 kilometre drive from the state’s capital Shillong, and is situated 1290 metres above sea level.
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