If an area that usually gets a lot of rain during the rainy season is getting less and less rain each year, where is that water going? Is it landing somewhere else or is it evaporating into the atmosphere permanently?
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Adding on to the other good answers so far:
There is no such thing as “into the air permanently”. The atmosphere isn’t gaining/retaining water. All the water that evaporates still falls down somewhere eventually. When a region’s rain patterns change (such as a dry or wet season), it’s just the location of the rain that’s changing. In a dry season, that rain just fell somewhere else, perhaps directly back into the ocean. In a wet season, rain that might normally have fallen somewhere else has fallen on your area instead.
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