Ready-Updates 4U

A Leap Year is a calender year that contains an additional day added to keep the calender year synchronised with the astronomical year or seasonal year.  Leap Year occurs once in every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day. 2024-A Leap Year How a leap year occurs?  It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit the Sun, which is called a Solar Year. We usually round the days in a calender year to 365. We add one day to our calender year for that missing partial day. That is a leap year. To discuss further, a year is the amount of time it takes a planet to orbit its star one time. A day is the amount of time it takes a planet to finish one rotation on its axis.  Our Earth takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours to orbit its star the Sun. It takes approximately 24 hour & 1 day to rotate on its axis. It means, our year is not an exact number of days. Because of that, most years, we round the days in a year down to 365. Howeve...

Cyclones are any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south.  Cyclone Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotates about a zone of low pressure. Q.Who are giving names to Cyclones? Global bodies like World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) give names to cyclones. Besides these, Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres((RSMC), as well as tropical cyclone warning centres, also prepare the names for cyclones. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is among six RSMC in the world that have been mandated to name tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean region. The WMO and UNESCAP comprise India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Pakistan and Oman. In 2018, the WMO and UNESCAP included five more countries--Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Unite...