The hot, dry wind that blows during the day in the summer over the northern plains of India is called

Loo is a strong, hot and dry wind that blows over the northern and north-western plains in May and June, often causing heat strokes. Mango showers are pre-monsoon showers in Kerala and Karnataka which help ripen mangoes, Norwesters (Kalbaisakhi) are thunderstorms in Bengal and Assam, while the Chinook is a warm dry wind on the eastern slopes of the Rockies in North America.