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India: climate and the monsoon

Climatic regions of India

Koppen's climatic types applied to India and their regions
Amw: west coast south of Goa; As: Coromandel with winter rain
Aw over most of the Peninsula; BShw semi-arid steppe of the Deccan interior and Punjab-Haryana; BWhw Thar desert
Cwg over the Ganga plain and north-east; Dfc, E and ET of the Himalaya and Ladakh
Climate of the Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands: humid tropical maritime, rain from both monsoons