give an account of weather condition and characteristic of cold season.
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The characteristics of cold season are as follows:
(1) The weather is normally marked by dear sky, low temperatures, low humidity and feeble, variable winds.
(ii) Days are warm and nights are cold. Frost is
common in the North and higher slopes of the Himalayas experience snowfall.
(iii) During this season, the North-East trade winds blow from land to sea and hence, for most parts of the country, it is a dry season. Some amount of rainfall occurs on the Tamil Nadu coast from these winds as they blow there from sea to land.
(iv) A characteristic feature of the cold weather season over the Northern plains is the inflow of cyclonic disturbances from the West and the North-West.
(v) They cause the much needed winter rains over the plains and snowfall in the mountain.
(vi) The peninsular region does not have a well defined cold season. There is hardly any noticeable change in temperature pattern during winter due to the moderating influence of the sea.