Essay About Monsoon

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1.1 Definition of Monsoon And Their Characteristics

Monsoon is derived from an Arabic word, “موسم”or mausim, which translates as seasons. It is generated by differential heating at land and water interface. According to NCSU, monsoon is defined as huge, seasonally changing giant sea breeze circulations that form due to temperature differences between ocean and land. National Geographic states that, “A monsoon is a seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region”. They cause wet and dry seasons all over the world.

Monsoons are also associated with the Indian Ocean. The wind in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia that blows from the southwest from April to October and from the northeast from October

This monsoon is dry and hotter season throughout of Malaysia except Sabah state. As the dry and hotter season, it will cause the area affected receive less rain. When it receive less rain, automatically, the place have the minimum rainfall. Less rain because the precipitation of could decrease. Other than that, less rain because when the water from the clouds rained, sometimes the droplet of rain get evaporated before it reaches the surface of the earth due to when the temperature is too high. Besides, the range of monthly minimum and maximum temperature that have been recorded is 20.7°C-25.4°C and 30.3°C-34.1°C respectively (Meteorology Department of Malaysia, September

As the heavy rain will raise the water level to rise and at the same time the local area will suffer flood. In the worst flood, Kelantan and Terengganu are the worst state to receive flood in which total 24,765 and 21,606 people flee their home respectively. Flood also effects the human health as the water of flood is not clean and full of unknown bacteria. When the people do not concern with their health during the flood, it can cause the people easy to get a disease. And when one effect with the disease, it will make the bacteria to spread easily and make more people get the