Prelims · 4 Indian Geography · 4.4 Climate and monsoon

4.4.3 Hot weather season and pre-monsoon storms: mango showers, kalbaisakhi and loo

March to May heats the country as the sun moves north, creating a heat low in the north-west, hot dry loo winds, and local thunderstorms such as mango showers and kalbaisakhi before the monsoon.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
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Key terms

  • summer
  • loo
  • kalbaisakhi
  • nor'wester
  • mango showers
  • blossom showers
  • bardoichila
  • ITCZ
  • heat wave

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  5. Common trapsFoundation
  6. Quick revisionFoundation

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