The coming of Sinlaku triggered a rare meteorological event known as the foehn phenomenon, wherein warm, dry winds swept through Taiwan's Taitung County, Xinhua said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

Air mass flows down a mountain range, you get a foehn wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

Just let it dangle till the next foehn wind slings it into the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

A warm wind means the foehn, the snow-melter, that will break the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

"It comes with the foehn, the snow-melter, the spring wind," Losaduna said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm foehn wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Germany: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm foehn wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The presence of a strong foehn (catabatic wind) contributes to warming and drying the Tsangpo Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yarlung Zambo arid steppe] Reference

Germanytemperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate] Reference

Germany temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

You could still make it, but if the foehn winds come early-and they could-then all the snow will melt fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm, tropical foehn wind; high relative humidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

#35 Steve Sadlov…As, where and how you build you harvest …extreme heatwaves…The foehn effects are enhanced by the inner and south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson's Amazing USHCN Station « Climate Audit] Reference

“Santa Ana” winds, or foehn winds, are hot winds … when one of them starts to blown, his assumption that wind will cool down the UHI gets blown out the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit] Reference

Surgeons are said to watch the wind, because blood does not clot normally during a foehn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissent the Blog] Reference

An off shore domestic 'foehn wind' - the hot dry wind blowing from the interior to the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Zonda wind (in Spanish, viento zonda) is a regional term for the foehn wind that often occurs on the eastern slope of the Andes, in Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The Santa Ana, which is named for one of the canyons it rushes through, is foehn wind, like the foehn of Austria and Switzerland and the hamsin of Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissent the Blog] Reference

In Switzerland the suicide rate goes up during the foehn, and in the courts of some Swiss cantons the wind is considered a mitigating circumstance for crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissent the Blog] Reference

There are a number of persistent malevolent winds, perhaps the best know of which are the mistral of France and the Mediterranean sirocco, but a foehn wind has distinct characteristics: it occurs on the leeward slope of a mountain range and, although the air begins as a cold mass, it is warmed as it comes down the mountain and appears finally as a hot dry wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissent the Blog] Reference

If the foehn comes while we're up on this glacier, we may all fall into the cracks, "Jondalar said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Yes, Janet, we is habbing foehn today.    From Wordnik.com.  [There is no snooze button - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

GoodBytes foehn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smashing Magazine] Reference

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