foehn

5 letters in word "foehn": E F H N O.

No anagrams for foehn found in this word list.

Words found within foehn:

ef eh en eon fe feh fen foe foen foh fohn fon fone he hen ho hoe hon hone ne nef no noh oe of oh on one

• Definitions:
• A warm dry wind on the lee side of a mountain range. The heating and drying are due to adiabatic compression as the wind descend downslope.
• Wind warmed and dried by descent, in general on the lee side of a mountain.
• A warm, dry, downslope wind descending the lee side of the Alps as a result of synoptic-scale, cross-barrier flow over the mountain range.
• The European name for a dry, downslope wind. Also called "chinook" in North America.
• Warm wind, usually from the South. Usually brings clear warm weather to the Northern Alps and possibly rain or snow to the Maritime Alps
• a strong, dry, katabatic wind, produced by prior enforced ascent of air over high parts of the European Alps.
• Name for a warm dry wind blowing down the side of a mountain in northern and central Europe; (same as chinook-type warm dry wind that descends eastern slopes of Rocky Mountains).
• This is the wind that crosses the northern side of the Alps from the south in the winter and early spring. It loses most of its water vapor as it goes up the slope, so it descends on the other side warm and dry.
• (warm dry southerly off the northern side of the Alps)
• fohn: a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps

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