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chinook wind

NOUN
  1. a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

How To Use chinook wind In A Sentence

  • Along the eastern slopes of the Rockies, the Chinook wind provides a welcome respite from the long winter chill.
  • Similar geography produces an excess of positive over negative ions in Canada's chinook winds.
  • A 2000 study published in Neurology found that when warm westerly winds, called the chinook winds, came off the Canadian Rockies, migraines increased in patients.
  • Conversely, if chinook winds weaken or cease, the cold air can move back in from the east, and the temperature will drop just as suddenly.
  • These are called chinook winds, because they come from the direction of the country of the Chinook Indians. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur
  • North America was also subjected to its own chinook winds.
  • Warm chinook winds from over the mountains to the west created the first open pastures as winter waned.
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