SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -A rain shadow is a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather. On one side of the mountain, wet weather systems drop rain and snow. On the other side of the mountain-the rain shadow side-all that precipitation is blocked.

Detailed explanation-2: -A region of sharply reduced precipitation on the lee side of an orographic barrier, as compared with regions upwind of the barrier. Slopes facing windward with respect to prevailing or seasonal moisture-bearing flows typically experience heavy orographic precipitation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The rain shadow zone is present in India along the eastern Side of Sahyadri ranges on Deccan plateau e.g. Northern Karnataka & Solapur, Beed, Osmanabad, and Vidharba Plateau of India. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-4: -An area on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain or mountain range where precipitation is significantly less than that on the windward (upwind) side is considered to lie within the mountain’s rain shadow (also known as precipitation shadow).