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What are the chief requirements for orographic rainfall to be experienced? Name a region which experiences it.

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The chief requirements to experience orographic rainfall are:

  1. moisture laden winds.
  2. mountain in the path of the winds.

It is experienced in the western Ghats. Monsoon winds bring rainfall to the windward side of the ghats while the leeward side remains dry.

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