Consider the following statements regarding the Indian monsoon system — its onset, progression, and withdrawal:

Statements

1. The large-scale Indian monsoon system is conventionally considered to first become established over the Kerala coast, as the Bay of Bengal branch drives the initial planetary-scale organisation of rainfall.
2. The Indian monsoon's withdrawal, which begins over Northwest India, proceeds more rapidly across the interior of the country than it does over the southeastern tip of the peninsula.
3. A local rainfall event at a given location can precede the large-scale monsoon onset at that location, because the large-scale onset is defined by the integration of local rainfall into a planetary-scale interconnected system rather than by the mere occurrence of first rainfall.