. during its journey over the warm waters of the bay of bengal the monsoon picks up water vapor then it surges into the deltas of the ganges and the brahmaputra this flow of humid air is blocked for the north by the malays and to the east by the mountains of burma. a. huge cloud formations then gather over the mountains releasing torrential rains. the northeast of india is the wettest region during the monsoon the high plateau of. has record quantities of rain this is where the monsoon meets the barrier of the himalayas. if monsoon is the soul of india general point g.
least every. three o clock deadline passes and as shastri has been predicting there is no rain check i mean. after reaching the south of india the monsoon moved on to the bay of bengal and has now reached calcutta. but once it has covered the whole region it doesn t bring rain every day . the monsoon is unpredictable. meteorologists talk about pulsations in alternation of active phases with heavy rainfall and pauses of varying degrees during which the rain stopped for a week sometimes even pretend thirty days these seasonal variations are very hard to predict but for gamblers and scientists alike.
is its spiritual capital. every indian school child knows that this is the rainiest place on earth with over ten metres of rain during a typical monsoon season. if . for over a century a met office employee here has been due to flee recording atmosphere and conditions and sending them to headquarters in triplicate giving a semblance of order and meaning to a phenomenon that s anything but. under british colonial rule the chair appoint the met office was considered a hardship posting the constant rain proving too much for even the english it drove
the heavenly palace is no longer staying in heaven. what does it mean for those of us on earth? reporter: i think most experts insist there s little threat to any person on the ground. certainly, that s what the chinese space agency is saying, this poses little threat to aviation or people on the ground. it does mark, i think, a rather unexpected end to china s first space lab. it was launched in 2011. it means heavenly palace, tumbling out of the heavens. we can show you a satellite tracker that shows roughly where it is in orbit, over the indian ocean, south of india and sri lanka right now, moving at a rapid clip of oh, 7.8 kilometers per second. more importantly is the deteriorating orbit. it has descended from a height of about 207 kilometers on march
across the indian ocean to the south of india. and all the way, yes, all the way to africa. i know it s very hard to put it in your mind how far this stuff can float, but i ll show it to you in just a second. there s a model out there that you can run yourself. you can throw a piece of plastic in any ocean and see where it will go. it s really cool. just hang with me for a second. there s the debris in australia in the water clearly for a very long time. it drifted across the ocean and eventually ended up over in the reunion area. this is a complete current that spins a little bit. also, there were two hurricanes in the ocean not long after the plane went missing. let s get to this very cool map. it s adrift.org.au. i can put a dot anywhere in the ocean and show you where the drift pattern will happen. so we say we pretty much know where the plane was here. this is where the drift is going to happen. and in five years some of this