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Chinook wind is a strong downslope wind
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Does a Chinook have wings?
Chinook can refer to three things: chinook salmon, CH-47 Chinook helicopter, or wind. Chinook salmon are fish; they have fins, not wings. The chinook that is wind is a warm, moist wind that blows inland in the Pacific Northwest. The CH-47 has two overhead rotors, no wings. So, no to all three.
What is a warm wind from the west called?
this wind is called a "chinook"
How are a Chinook and a sirocco alike?
they both have to do with the wind.
In weather terms a Chinook is characterized by a warm what?
wind
What does Chinook Winds refer to?
A Chinook wind is when a wind blows along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in Canada. The winds brink in warmer air raising the temperature in the winder
A wind which comes from inland?
California: Santa Ana Colorado: Chinook? An Offshore wind (as opposed to and 'onshore' wind)
What wind's name in North American Indian for snow eater?
Chinook
What is a Chinook wind?
A warm dry wind that blows down the east side of the Rooky Mountains at the end of winter.
Is a cyclone a Chinook?
No. A Chinook, strictly speaking, as an easterly warm winter wind that blows down from the east side of the Rocky Mountains into Montana and Wyoming.
What is Chinook's origin word come from?
Chinook is a wind in the North and West of America, where the Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, Locally, it means 'ice eater'. It takes its name from the Chinook peoples who lived near the ocean and along the Columbia River
Which dry warm southwesterly wind often sweeps through Alberta and BC in mid-winter?
Chinook
What is the winter high in Montana?
When a Chinook wind blows through its not uncommon to jump into the upper 60s in midwinter.
