Q106
Geography (incl. West Bengal)Climate, Monsoon & Cyclones
The variability of rainfall during August in India would be more pronounced generally at
- a.Kolkata
- b.Ranchi
- c.Jodhpur
- d.Lucknow
Answer: (C) Jodhpur
Rainfall variability is inversely related to the amount of rainfall: the lower the average rainfall, the more it fluctuates from year to year. Jodhpur, in the arid Thar region of western Rajasthan, gets scanty monsoon rain (roughly 35-40 cm a year) with a coefficient of variability above 50%, whereas Kolkata, Ranchi and Lucknow lie in regions of assured monsoon rain with variability of roughly 15-25%. Hence drought-prone areas are precisely the low-rainfall, high-variability areas - western Rajasthan, Kutch and the rain-shadow belt of the Deccan.