Of Climates In India | Types

From the desert, he flew east to the lush, manicured tea gardens of Shillong, in Meghalaya. This was and its wild cousin, the Montane Climate (H) .

Here, the air was thick enough to drink. He arrived during the pre-monsoon showers, and a local farmer laughed at his flimsy umbrella. “You are in the wettest place on earth, son,” the farmer said, pointing to Mawsynram. “Our rain doesn’t fall; it stands .” For days, a relentless drizzle painted everything in fifty shades of green. The heat was not as intense as the desert, but the humidity was a suffocating blanket. Hot, wet summers and mild, foggy winters. This was a land of rivers and rice, where mold grew on leather and umbrellas were a second skeleton.

He then traveled south to the tip of the peninsula, to the backwaters of Kerala—.