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1. Define weather and climate
2. Name the coldest month
3. Name the hottest month.
4. Define kal Baisakhi
5. What is loo?
6. Mention the factors that affect the climate of a place.
7. Name the driest place stations of India
8.write any two characteristics of Arabian sea branch of Southwest monsoon.
9. What does the breaking of monsoon mean?
10. Why does the rainfall decrease from east to west in Northern India?​

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Answered by Rajani17
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Answer:

1.Weather reflects short-term conditions of the atmosphere while climate is the average daily weather for an extended period of time at a certain location. ... Weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, is the average of weather over time and space.

2.The coldest months of the year for most Northern Hemisphere locations are the months of January and February.

3.September 2020 was the warmest month on record worldwide, scientists with the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced.

4.Violent thunderstorms in the Gangetic plains of India are locally known as Kal Baisakhi or Nor'westers. These localised events are generally associated with thunderstorms accompanied by strong squally winds and torrential rainfall.

5.The Loo is a strong, dusty, gusty, hot and dry summer wind from the west which blows over the western Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan. It is especially strong in the months of May and June. Due to its very high temperatures, exposure to it often leads to fatal heatstrokes

6.The climate of a place is influenced by a host of interacting factors such as:

Latitude. ...

Elevation. ...

Ocean Currents. ...

Topography. ...

Vegetation. ...

Prevailing winds.

7.Two driest stations: Leh and Jodhpur.

8.i)When obstructed by the Western Ghats, they cause heavy rainfall to the windward side of the Sahyadris.

ii)It is also responsible for heavy rainfall in the western Himalayan region.

9.Break monsoon is the absence of rains during the period of monsoon. As in the monsoon trough shifts closer to the foothills of himalayas, which inturn leads to a sharp decrease in rainfall over majority parts of India.

10.Rainfall decreases from the east to the west in Northern India because there is a decrease in the moisture content of the winds. ... Consequently, states like Gujarat and Rajasthan in western India get very little rainfall.

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