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Discuss the salient features of ‘sirocco’ and ‘mistral’.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Climatology

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Sirocco and mistral are non-periodic local winds of the Mediterranean basin — the summer-dry, winter-wet Csa/Csb climate that Wladimir Köppen demarcated — where they are among the chief sources of day-to-day weather variety.

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  • Sirocco — the Hot, Dusty Southerly
  • Current Evidence
  • Mistral — the Cold, Channelled Northerly
  • Sirocco and Mistral Compared
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