Mighty Monsoons

In parts of India, this month is the start of the monsoon, an annual season of rain that's heralded by the call of the peacock.

Indian climatic conditions vary from a wide range of weather conditions across its geographic area. It is also one of the main reason to say its a difficult task to generalise the climate.
From the arid zones in the western parts to the glaciers in the north, and the humid regions in tropical side of south west.

July is the month of monsoon and October to December mainly called rainy season.Late in May the first signs of the monsoon are visible in some areas - high humidity, electrical storms, short rainstorms and dust storms that turn day into night. The hot season is the time to abandon the plains and head for the cooler hills, and this is when hill stations are at their best (and busiest).

A monsoon is a term from early Arabs called the Mausin or the season of winds. Those cold breezes welcomes the visitors to hillstations. This was in reference to the seasonally shifting winds in the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions, including the Arabian Sea.

These winds blow from the southwest during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other. There are seasonal changes which are particularly noticed as northeast winds prevailing in the winter in the Southeast Asia and southwest winds in the summer.
Monsoons will occur in other parts of the world like Australia and in the Southwest portions of the United States.

Now as monsoons have become better understood, the definition now indicates climatic systems anywhere in which the moisture increases dramatically in the warm season. The Asian monsoon, which affects the Indian subcontinent and southeast part of the continent, is probably the most noted of the monsoons.