1. During winter, the pleasant weather in India sometimes gets disturbed by cyclonic depressions originating in the Mediterranean Sea2. These temperate cyclones travel E across W Asia, Iran, AFG and PAK => pick up moisture from the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf => enter the NW parts of India with the help of the westerly jetstream => causes precipitation => decrease in air temperature over NW India3. The occasional rainfall caused is highly beneficial for the standing rabi crops

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1. 1. During winter, the pleasant weather in India sometimes gets disturbed by cyclonic depressions originating in the Mediterranean Sea
2. These temperate cyclones travel E across W Asia, Iran, AFG and PAK => pick up moisture from the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf => enter the NW parts of India with the help of the westerly jetstream => causes precipitation => decrease in air temperature over NW India
3. The occasional rainfall caused is highly beneficial for the standing rabi crops