The small amount of winter rain that Haryana receives in December and January is brought by:
- A.The south-west monsoon
- B.The retreating monsoon
- C.Western disturbances
- D.The north-east monsoon from the Bay of Bengal
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, western disturbances. These are low pressure systems that form over the Mediterranean and West Asia and travel east with the westerly jet stream, reaching north-west India in winter. The rain they bring to Haryana is small in amount but decisive in effect, because it falls on standing wheat, gram and mustard and saves the farmer a round of irrigation; the same systems bring the cold waves and the frost.
Option A, the south-west monsoon, gives Haryana the bulk of its rain but only between July and September. Option B, the retreating monsoon of October and November, leaves north-west India dry and clear and is the sowing time for rabi crops rather than a rain-giving season. Option D is wrong because the north-east monsoon of October to December waters the Coromandel coast, mainly Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh, and never reaches Haryana. The examiner's trap is to offer the north-east monsoon as the winter rain of the whole country.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich hot and dry westerly wind blows over Haryana in May and June?
- A.Kalbaisakhi
- B.Loo
- C.Mango shower
- D.Norwester
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The loo is the hot, dry wind that blows from the west and north-west over the plains of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh in May and June.
Read the full explanation →Rainfall in Haryana decreases in which direction?
- A.From south-west to north-east
- B.From north-east to south-west
- C.From north to south evenly
- D.From east to west only along the Yamuna
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The Shivalik districts of Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar in the north-east catch the first of the monsoon against the foothills and receive the heaviest rain of the state, while the south-western districts of Sirsa, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh lie towards the dry Thar margin and receive the least.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Haryana normally receives the highest annual rainfall?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Bhiwani
- C.Panchkula
- D.Mahendragarh
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Panchkula lies in the Shivalik foothills at the north-eastern corner of the state.
Read the full explanation →In Haryana, the loamy and most fertile soil is known locally by which name?
- A.Bhur
- B.Dakar
- C.Rausli
- D.Kallar
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Rausli is the loam of the central Haryana plain, a balanced mixture of sand, silt and clay.
Read the full explanation →The sandy soil of south-western Haryana is locally called:
- A.Bhur
- B.Rausli
- C.Dhankar
- D.Kandi
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Bhur is the light, loose, sandy soil found in Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, where Haryana shades into the sandy tract of Rajasthan.
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