10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WET CHINOOK»
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 1/4 A-Z:
There is a wet chinook, a dry chinook, and a third wind of an in— termediate sort.
The term was first applied to a warm s. w. wind which blew from over the Chinook
camp to the trading post established by the Hudson Bay Company at Astoria, ...
Frederick Webb Hodge,
2003
2
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
... so called by early settlers because it blew from the direction of the Chinook
Indian camps, designates a dry wind blowing from the west or north over the
Rocky Mountains—warm in winter and cool in summer—while a wet Chinook is a
warm, ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... noctilucent cloud stratocirrus stratocumulus thunderhead wrack rain cloud
stratus storm cloud thundercloud monsoon simoom/ storm nor'wester simoon/
samiel trade wind pampero sirocco tramontana Perth doctor solano wet chinook
shamal ...
4
The Natural History of Puget Sound Country
... 110-11 Marine mammals: of Puget Sound, 75, 112-15; seals, sea lions, 112;
whales, porpoises, dolphins, 112 Marine sediments: and microcontinents (
terranes), 12 Maritime air: and climate in Puget basin, xx, 36, 44; and wet
Chinook wind, ...
Arthur R. Kruckeberg,
1995
We filled the bird feeders and watched through the windows with a certain happy
and selfish nostalgia. We had no need to travel. The snow would rain out
presently; or a wet "chinook" would come to relieve us, one of those moist
southwest ...
6
Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North ...
Water, ultimately, is an ambivalent element that can deceive, like the supposedly
“mild and wet” Chinook that June chooses to deceive herself with (6), which in
fact is a freezing wind that kills her. My reading has stressed the subversion of an
...
... including the warm, moist southwesterly wind blowing from the Pacific ocean to
the coastal region of Washington and Oregon; sometimes distinguished as the '
wet chinook.' " There has been much controversy over the history of the name.
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General report on a botanical survey of the Cœur d'Alene ...
The wet chinook is a most frequent accompaniment of a very severe snowfall in
the latter part of January. This may have commenced with a low temperature,
which gradually begins to rise as the storm advances. Finally a cessation of the ...
John Bernhard Leiberg,
1901
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Contributions from the United States National Herbarium
The wet chinook is a most frequent accompaniment of a very severe snowfall in
the latter part of January. This may have commenced with a low temperature,
which gradually begins to rise as the storm advances. Finally a cessation of the ...
10
Junior Historical Journal
The wet Chinook gets its moisture from an inexhaustible source — the ocean.
The dry Chinook is a peculiar one. In the dead of winter it blows down from the
mountains and high plateaus upon the foothills and valleys below. Its effects are
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3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WET CHINOOK»
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Winter strikes back; coldest Thanksgiving in 25 years?
The stealthy warm front — the combination of high humidity, southwest breezes and rapidly rising temps — acted like a wet Chinook and ate away at 2 inches of ... «Minnesota Public Radio News, Nov 14»
Summit Unchained #17 Harvest Fresh IPA
He accomplished this by sourcing freshly pelletized Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops from Roy Farms in Moxee, Washington. Wet Chinook hops were ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct 14»
Tröegs Scratch #116—Fresh Hop Ale Review
For the Scratch #116—Fresh Hop Ale, Tröegs shipped 400 lbs. of wet Chinook hops from Yakima Valley, Washington. An impressive detail is that the day the ... «Paste Magazine, Oct 13»