Assalamu alaikum and welcome to Monsoon Mechanics. I am Tasnim Rahman. For seven years I sat in a forecasting room in Dhaka watching clouds form over the Bay of Bengal, and now I want to explain that sky to you. This week the question everyone in my family is asking. Why is the monsoon late? The honest answer starts with a simple idea, land heats faster than sea, and then gets complicated in interesting ways, including a patch of warm water in the Pacific that is thousands of kilometres away and still matters. I have a voice note from a farmer in Khulna who is deciding whether to transplant his rice this week or wait. By the end you will understand what he is weighing. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let us look up.