This fundamental physiologic response forms the foundation of modern day stress medicine. The fight or flight response is our body's primitive, automatic, inborn response that prepares the body to fight or flee from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival.
Monsoons affect other areas as well. For instance, the Asian-Australian monsoon blows from the Pacific Coast of Russia to Australia. The North American monsoon, which usually occurs midsummer, originates in both the Gulf of California and the Gulf of Mexico. Winds from these regions meet in central Mexico over the Madre Occidental Mountains, where the monsoon brings much needed moisture. Eventually the monsoon moves north into Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Derived from mauism, the Arabic word for season, a monsoon often refers to a rainy season -- but this only describes the weather a monsoon brings, not what a monsoon is. A monsoon is actually a seasonal shift in wind direction and pressure distribution that causes a change in precipitation. A Change in the Wind. All winds blow as a result of pressure imbalances between two locations. In the case of monsoons, this pressure imbalance is created when temperatures across vast landmasses such as India and Asia, are significantly warmer or cooler than those over neighboring oceans.