Write a short note on areas of high, low and very low rainfall of India?
1. The areas of heavy rainfall get 100-200 cm rainfall annually. Eastern slopes of Western Ghats, northern parts of India, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh etc get 100200 cm rainfall.
2. The area of low rainfall gets 60-100 cm rainfall. Maharashtra, western Madhya Pradesh, parts of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, eastern Rajasthan etc are the areas getting 50-100 cm rainfall annually.
3. The areas of very low rainfall getting less than 60 cm rainfall are termed as the very low rainfall areas. Desert areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat, Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir and Leeward side of the Western Ghats get less than 60 cm rainfall
