@1seidla
Yeah but I don't live in a cold place.
This is hot tropic, usual temperatures always above 30°C.
16°C freezes us, we are not adapted to cold.

@mur2501 Oh come on, 16C isn't even a freezing temperature! Try 0C here at night! ;) It's bad enough that in parts of my country there are salt trucks driving around, making the roads safe.
How much of India is tropical?
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Yeah 16°C is not any freezing cold, just until now it was mostly hot and suddenly it has become cold so that's it.
Geographically India is not too much close to the equator but the Indian ocean carries the hot moisture to the subcontinent which collides with the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats (ghat means mountain chain) making the climate somewhat moist tropical and also giving the ghat regions very high amount of rain. The temperature in the summers goes above 40°C. (I live in the western ghats)
Where do you live?

@mur2501
Netherlands is where I'm from. I'm probably @1seidla 's neighbour. ;)

All flat, not a mountain in sight. We have one oversized hill that we call a mountain, you'd probably laugh at us for it (400 meter if I recall correctly).

Are your coasts basically all mountainous? Trapping whatever temperature and moisture inside? So, is India a natural greenhouse country? Jeez... I'd probably not like living there, I don't stand jungle climate very well. ;) I prefer it dry and about... well... 25ish degrees. 20-25 would be nice. 30+ is killing me.

@trinsec
The Western Ghats run parallel to the coast spanning 1600 Km in lenght, average distance between the ghats and coast remains mostly 50-100Km throughout.
My town is situated on foot of the Western Ghats(80Km from Mumbai). The mountain here in my town is called Mahuli (Pictured, one is from rainy season so all green other from the summer hence brown and desert like) it's around 900 m in height. The highest peak of the Western Ghats is in Southern India at the height of 2695m (known as Anamudi, literally means elephant's head).
While all of the India is typically hot (except the Himalayas ofcourse) Western Ghats also receive a ton of rain making it a great habitat for all animals and plants. Basically this is the Amazon of India.

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Also greenhouse refers to carbon dioxide, methane, etc this has nothing to do with it.
This is just how naturally rain works.

@mur2501 Actually, I'm talking greenhouse as in those glass houses. Not the Greenhouse Effect you refer to. :)

@trinsec
This is real nature, nature is the origin of those plants in the greenhouses

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