Digest Number 838

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Is there a heat wave in Kerala, or only on the other side of the southern

tip? Would it be due to the Arabian Sea, cooling? but then why not on the

Eastern side, where it is also, of course, surrounded by ocean? Indologists?

 

 

 

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--- sprose1 wrote:

> Is there a heat wave in Kerala, or only on the other

> side of the southern

> tip? Would it be due to the Arabian Sea, cooling?

> but then why not on the

> Eastern side, where it is also, of course,

> surrounded by ocean? Indologists?

>

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Traditionally, Monsoon season starts from Arabian sea

and enters into India through Kerala. In fact Kerala

is the first state to receive showers, from Kerala the

monsoon spreads through out India. By the way west

coast of India is Gifted with Western Ghats or

Mountains as a result you have hill stations like

Ooty, kodaikanal, Kandala, Mahabaleshwar. All though

east coast does have eastern ghats but they are not

that steep, as a result there are no hill stations on

eastern coast except one Araku. Regarding Andhra

Pradesh, latest report states that 1020 are

perished,temperatures reached 50 degree Celsius. This

is not new, since last year(2002) more than thousand

people were dead in the same state.

The ironic thing is during the first quarter of

this year more than thousand people died in northern

India, predominately in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, guess

for what "cold wave". So you have more than 2000

people dying in India in same year for extreme

temperatures. Besides this you have thousands dying

every year in Orissa due to cyclones and in Assam when

river Brahmaputra overflows. Indeed! who ever said

India is land of extremes it seems it is true.

 

regards

Avinash.

 

 

 

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