Question

Give any two characteristics of the cold weather season or winter.

Answer 1

Hint: Characteristic defines the features or the attributes or telling the qualities of something or for someone. Winter is a season and season is basically the division of year and depends on factors such as: ecology, weather and the number of daylights in a particular region.

Complete Answer:
Winter season – the coldest season in a year and it is one of the favorite seasons of the people. Winter season is considered as the mid-season of autumn and spring. Winters are associated with plunging temperatures that is associated with the sudden decrease in temperature and icy weather. The farther the area from the equator, cold temperature is experienced.

Characteristic of cold weather season or winter are:
1. The time duration of the winter season is nearly about three to four months.
2. In this season days are comparatively shorter than the nights. So, days are shorter and nights are long.

Additional information: There are other characteristics also and they are:
I. In this season people wear heavy clothes basically woolen clothes.
II. The beautification of this season is experiencing snowfall in the hilly areas like Himalayan regions and freezing cold temperature.
III. During this season strong winds blow all around.

Note: The cold weather season – winter in India begins during mid-November in Northern India and lasts till February. Coldest months are December and January. The cold or winter season in most parts of the country is additionally known as the dry season because the northeast winds blow from land to sea. In this winter season rainfall helps in the cultivation of the rabi crops (wheat, mustard, barley, oats pulses etc.).