Why do some places get monsoons?
Land & Sea Flip
Why do some places get monsoons?
Imagine waiting all year for rain — real rain, not a drizzle, but curtains of water that fill rivers and turn brown earth green. In some parts of the world, that's exactly what happens. The rain doesn't come a little at a time. It saves itself up and arrives all at once, in a season so wet it has its own name: the monsoon.
Monsoons happen because land and ocean heat up differently in the sun. Land is like a frying pan — it gets hot fast. The ocean is like a big pot of soup — it takes forever to warm up. When summer arrives, the land heats up quickly while the ocean stays cooler.
