Do you live in an area affected by the phenomenon known as a Monsoon? Explain why or why not using ideas and concepts from the chapter. (Points : 5)

Monsoons are not affecting eastern Oregon. In monsoons you need a great amount of water to be lifted from the ocean and that water drop on land. Eastern Oregon is more than 400 miles from a water source large as the amount need like the size of ocean. A monsoon pattern is where heating of land and ocean differ. The difference happens in the summer mostly due to the need heating. On land the air is heated quicker than the ocean and producing a greater pressure difference between the land and the water. A low area of pressure forms over the land. As the water is heated more water is able to be carried in the clouds. As the cloud move towards the lower pressure i.e. the land, we have an up rise in land mass. You have great rains and greater amount flooding as the climbing air mass has to move at higher elevation. This cools the air mass and water condensates over that land (rain) depositing great amount of water causing flooding.
In a micro climate of the Columbia River can produce more rain over an area depending on the land mass shape. The land mass must rise greatly and the heating of the water be enough with little wind (due to evaporation) to create an air mass with higher relative humidity. Then as this air mass moves over the increasing altitude of the land you have above normal rain levels. I think an example would be the Washington side of the river across from The Dallas. The area has a greater amount of rain. Most of this rain level is due to elevation steepness however rain increases a small amount due to the waters of the Columbia River. This is nowhere a monsoon but given that if the Columbia River became a large sea then it would be possible. Other example would be if the great lakes where located near the equator. In a cold climate you have something comparable to Monsoons, “lake effect snow.”