WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF EL NINO ON INDIA?
El Nino is a shift in ocean temperatures and atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific that disrupts weather around the world. EL Nino refers to the warm current that flows southward along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru, between January and March.This anomaly, which occurs every two to seven years.This anomaly causes variability of the monsoons.when pressure is high over the Pacific Ocean, it tends to be low over the Indian Ocean from Australia to Africa. As pressures are inversely related to rainfall, it implies that low pressure over the Indian Ocean would result in a good monsoon. –During El Nino year the warm water replaces cold currents in eastern pacific(chile,peru coasts)…this creates a low pressure zone in that region and a relatively high pressure conditions in the indian ocean region.this high pressure conditions in the indian ocean can be detrimental to the monsoons.
