India is a very big country, with a large variety in its terrain, which results in a wide variety of climatic conditions. India weather conditions range from permanent snowfields to tropical coastlands and from desert lands to fertile fields.
India weather can be divided into 7 climatic regions: the Rajasthan Desert, the Himalayas, the northern plains from the Ganges delta to northwest of Delhi, the Deccan plateau, the west coast, the southeast coastlands, and Assam in the northeast.
India weather is substantially defined by the great wind system known as the Asiatic monsoon. The monsoon reverses direction throughout the year. For some months it will blow gradually from the southwest and for other months from the northeast.
From June to October India weather is influenced by the moist monsoon from the southwest, which brings rain with it. On some mountain ranges close to the coast, rainfall can be very heavy. The coolest and driest time throughout most of the country is the period between December and February, when light northerly winds leave the skies clear and the rain is decreased. From March to May the weather in India gets hotter and the precipitation becomes even lighter. The rain will increase only when the wind turns again to the southwest.
Though divided into different climatic zones, the whole of India weather seems to share four distinct seasons; winter, summer, advancing monsoon and retreating monsoon.
Winter lasts from December to February almost all over India. The days are cold and usually dry, with average temperature of 10-15 C, which can drop down to below 0 C in some areas of northern India.
Between March and June, which are the summer months, the sunrays fall vertically on Indian subcontinent. The average temperature is around 32 C but in western region the temperature can often exceed 40 C.
June, July, August and September form the advancing monsoon season in almost all parts of country. Sudden moisture laden winds approach the country, which are followed by severe thunderstorms and lightening.
Retreating Monsoon commences when the monsoon begins to retreat. At the end of September the rainfall decreases, and in November the monsoon is completely withdrawn from most of India.
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