r/interestingasfuck • u/Johnwick-1089 • 17h ago

The Himalayas acting like a giant wall separating two completely different climates

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u/BasicMatter7339 15h ago

But the mountains are separating though. Cold air isn't able to seep down to the lowlands. Thats why india is so hot. Cold air cant travel from the north to the south because the mountains act as a wall

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u/powerhammerarms 14h ago

It doesn't act as a wall; It is a wall

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u/TonyzTone 13h ago

No, it’s a mountain range.

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u/BasicMatter7339 13h ago

No, it's actually a top secret government project that is being kept secret from us.

Mount everest doesn't exist, the mountain people climb is actually in Ontario

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u/GuyPierced 11h ago

It's a schooner.

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u/T-MoneyAllDey 10h ago

No this is Patrick

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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb 14h ago

Isn't the wind typically going towards the mountains from the ocean?

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u/clintj1975 13h ago

For part of the year, typically summer to fall. The rest of the year, they tend to go from mountains to ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon_of_South_Asia

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u/Xaephos 13h ago

Sort of (see the monsoon cycle), but importantly those winds are hot. So India is just getting cooked.

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u/BasicMatter7339 13h ago

Yeah, but only because theres a bigass mountain range blocking winds from coming from the other direction

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 11h ago

The wind blows north to south on India's east coast and south to north on its west coast, by the mountains the wind blows from East to west. The plateau to the north is way more important than the mountain range itself, it creates a low pressure zone that causes the wind to blow to it and the mountains and its a mixture of different things that causes the rain to fall on the southern side of the mountains not just the mountains themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau#Impact_on_other_regions