Multiple choice

Which of the following regions do not receive any rainfall during the advancing monsoon season?

  1. Lahul-Spiti of Himachal Pradesh
  2. Coromandel Coast
  3. Great Indian Desert

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. 1, 2 and 3
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Great Indian Desert sometimes receives poor and erratic rainfall during the advancing monsoon season. But Lahul-Spiti region does not experience ANY rainfall in advancing monsoon season due to its extreme continentality (location is too interior for the moisture-laden winds to encroach) and Coromandel coast also does not receive ANY rainfall. It lies on the leeward side (rain-shadow area) of the Western Ghats because of which it does not receive any rainfall in summer due to the south-west monsoon.

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