About Olympics and Cloudburst for competitive exams

1.THE OLYMPICS :-
         The Olympic Games are athletic festival that originated in Greece and later revived in the late 19th century. That include World's foremost sports competition and include athletes from all over the world.

About:-
1) Originally Olympics started in 776 BCE, apparently there was only one event, that was Footrace of about 192 metres. 
2) Olympics are held after every 4 years.
3) The Olympics games are held in various cities of the world, and selection of these cities Solely lies with the International Olympic Council (IOC).
4) Recently 2020 Olympic Games are held in Tokyo, Japan(Summer Olympics).
5) Originally Tokyo Olympic was Planned to schedule in 2020 but due to Corona Virus Pandemic, This was postponed and held in 2021.

2.CLOUDBURST:-
        Recently Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district witnessed a disastrous Cloudburst. Three people died and another four went missing after disastrous event of Cloudburst in Mando village of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi District.

What is Cloudburst?
         A Cloudburst is an extreme amount of precipitation in short time, sometimes with hail and thunderstorm, which is capable of creating flood situations, landfall etc.

About :-
1) Cloudburst mostly occurs in Desert or Billy areas due to heavy precipitation.
2) It happens due to  the warm air current from the ground or below the clouds rushes up and carries the falling raindrops up with it. The rain fails to fall down in steady shower, Which causes excessive condensation in clouds as new drops form and old drops are pushed back into it by updraft.
3) Rainfall rate is equal to or greater than 100 mm per hour.
4) Most disastrous Cloud burst recorded in Ganges Delta of India and Bangladesh in January 1966, with rainfall 2329mm.



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