NOUN
- an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it
How To Use rain shadow In A Sentence
- The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
- Strain shadows around feldspar porphyroclasts contain recrystallized potassium feldspar, plagioclase and quartz.
- A useful introductory chapter discusses how mountains create a rain shadow, and how to get a feel for weather by looking at clouds and sunbows.
- The natural droughtiness of the soil in ecoregion 17m is enhanced by its location in the rain shadow of the two mountain ranges. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
- The rain shadow on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range and the Andes, as well as a coastal inversion layer created by the cold offshore Humboldt Current, keep this over 20 million-year-old desert 50 times drier than California's Death Valley. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
- The most luxuriant rain forests occur in northwest Morotai and north Halmahera, as opposed to the south arm of Halmahera, which is in the rain shadow of north Halmahera and Bacan. Halmahera rain forests
