Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 4

The correct answer is option 2, i.e Chinook.

• Chinook is the warm and dry local wind blowing on the leeward side or eastern side of Rockies.
• Chinook is more common in winter and early spring from Colorado to British Columbia in Canada.
• The winds after descending through eastern slopes of the Rockies are warmed adiabatically.
• So during the winter season with the arrival of chinook the temperature of the area rises by 4-22 degree Celsius melting up of the ground snow.
• Therefore chinook is known as SNOW EATER.
• Fohn is similar to Chinook but it blows in Europe along the Northern Alps that causes warming in Switzerland making it "climatic oasis of Europe"
• Santa Ana blows in the California region.
• Loo is the hot dry local wind that blows in the summer season in Northern India.