INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Plannetary winds variously known as roaring forties, furious fifties and stormy syxties are
A
Cyclones
B
Plar winds
C
Westerlies
D
Trade winds
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Westerlies in the Southern hemisphere. The Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s are winds that batter the Southern Ocean, on the fringes of Antarctica.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are three types of planetary winds such as the Trade winds, Westerlies, and Easterlies. The planetary wind that falls in the category of Westerlies is named as Roaring forties, Furious Fifties, and Shrieking sixties. These winds are found in the Southern Hemisphere.

Detailed explanation-3: -turbulent “Roaring Forties” and “Furious Fifties” lie in a circumpolar storm track and a westerly oceanic current zone commonly called the West Wind Drift, or Circumpolar Current. Warm, subtropical surface currents in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans move southward in the western parts of these waters and then…

Detailed explanation-4: -In the Southern Hemisphere, these winds after 40 ° latitude show a very stormy nature. It remains stable in summer as well as in winter. In the old days, sailors used to call them forties, ‘furious fifties’ and ‘weeping sixties’ because these winds create a very noisy atmosphere and were not suited to them at all.

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