INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The name Himalaya means “abode of snow” in Sanskrit. On November 20, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of fresh snow along the Himalayan range in central Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Name. The name of the range hails from the Sanskrit Himālaya ( ‘abode of the snow’), from himá ( ‘snow’) and ā-laya ( ‘home, dwelling’). They are now known as “the Himalaya Mountains", usually shortened to “the Himalayas".

Detailed explanation-3: -Himadri is the northernmost range of the Himalayan that is covered throughout the year as it’s always covered with snow. It is the northernmost range of Himalayan which is also called the inner Himalayas which also include the most prominent peak of the Himalayan mountain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Western disturbances are cyclones and storms which develop over the Mediterranean sea and bring heavy rainfall to the northern parts of India and cause snowfall in the Himalayas ranges during winter.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Himalayas. The Himalayas, which literally means the abode of snow, is the youngest and the highest range of fold mountains in the world. In India it extends in the east from the borders of Myanmar to where the Indus divides it from the Hindukush and Karakoran ranges, covering a distance of about 2500 km.