Question

Match the following:

Places of Cloudburst	Date of Cloudburst
a. Kedarnath	I. 6th August 2010
b. Leh-Ladakh	II. 15th August 1997
c. Mumbai	III. 16th June 2013
d. Chirgaon	IV. 26th July 2004

1. a-III, b-I, c-IV, d-II
2. a-I, b-III, c-IV, d-II
3. a-III, b-I, c-II, d-IV
4. a-II, b-IV, c-I, d-III

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : a-III, b-I, c-IV, d-II

The correct answer is a-III, b-I, c-IV, d-II.

• A cloudburst is sudden copious rainfall. It is a sudden aggressive rainstorm falling for a short period of time-limited to a small geographical area.
• The rains from a cloudburst are usually of the shower type with a fall rate equal to or greater than 100 mm (4.94 inches) per hour.

• On August 15, 1997, 115 people were killed when a cloud burst came bustling, and the trail of death is all that is left behind in Chirgaon in Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh.
• On 26 July 2004, A cloudburst caused approximately 950 millimeters (37 in) of rainfall in Mumbai.
• On August 6, 2010, in Leh, a series of cloudbursts left 179 persons dead and over 400 injured in the Leh town of Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir.
• On 16 June 2013, the cloudburst was the widespread heavy rains that led to flash floods in all the major river valleys in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand. Almost 5,748 were dead and 4,550 villages were affected.