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  Week 10: Ext reme Wea ther https://youtu.be/Coo5ZozDvEw    https://youtu.be/Coo5ZozDvEw  "to view this video" "Also please click on any images to view closer" The Southern Indian state of India Andhra Pradesh recorded 37,749 lighting strikes in just 13 hour period on April 24 2023. South India is known as Peninsular India, it is the southern part of the Deccan Plateau in India.  The areas of highest activity of thunderstorms exceeding 120 days in the year are seen over   Assam, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and windward side of Pir Panjal range in Jammu and Kashmir .  South India consists of the five southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Andhra Pradesh typically receives about  47.54 millimeters (1.87 inches)  of precipitation and has 93.17 rainy days (25.53% of the time) annually. Average annual precipitation. Extreme weather events in India this year 2023 Hailstorms , which affected ...
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3D MAP of INDIA One of the biggest catastrophes that plaque India's homeland are floods. Breakdown of natural disasters in India per type of event and nature of losses     Natural disasters Material loss Human loss Floods 52% 63% 32% Hurricanes 30% 19% 32% Landslides 10% - 2% Earthquakes 5% 10% 33% Droughts 3% 5% 1% Total 100% 100% 100% Source :  World Bank   Landslides in India This danger affects at least 15% of the country's land area in India ( approx. 0.49 million square Km.) It is highly common in geo dynamically active domains such as the Himalayan and Arakan-Yoma belts in the country's northeastern sections, as well as in comparatively stable domains such as the Meghalaya Plateau, Western Ghats, and Nilgiri Hills. The Nilgiri Hills, located at the confluence of the Eastern and Western Ghats, display numerous landslide scars as a result of their location in a zone of high in...