{"id":5524,"date":"2022-12-27T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:50:29","slug":"cold-wave-conditions-in-north-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cold-wave-conditions-in-north-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Wave Conditions in North India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is a cold wave?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The IMD records a cold wave when the minimum temperature is equal to or less than 10 degree Celsius at a weather station in the plains, and is <strong>5 degrees to 6.4 degrees below the normal temperature for that period.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A cold wave<\/strong> may also be recorded at a station in the plains when the minimum temperature is less than or equal to 4 degree Celsius.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For hilly regions<\/strong>, a cold wave is declared when the minimum temperature is less than or equal to 0 degree Celsius and the minimum temperature is 4.5 degrees to 6.4 degrees below the normal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The \u2018normal\u2019 temperature<\/strong> is calculated for every five days by taking the average temperature for these days over the past 30 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What causes a cold wave?<\/h3>\n<p>In the Northern Hemisphere, cold waves occur when very cold, dense air near the surface moves out of its source region in northern Canada or northern Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Severe-cold-wave-conditions-to-continue-in-North-India-till-Thursday&amp;id=453023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Severe cold wave conditions to continue in North India till Thursday<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold wave condition is recorded by IMD by comparing it with normal temperature at a particular place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}