Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks...

Evidence for effects from Chinook winds remain anecdotal, as it does for New Zealand's Nor'wester. In some regions, Foehn winds are associated with causing...

Look up chinook or Chinook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinook may refer to: The name derives from a settlement of Indigenous people in Oregon...

" Chinook salmon Chinook (wind) Boeing CH-47 Chinook Neerchokikoo Wilson, Katie (October 7, 2014). "Recognition move by Oregon tribe stirs Chinook concerns"...

Chinook Winds Casino and convention center is a Native American casino located in Lincoln City, Oregon. It is operated by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz...

tornadoes occur primarily during spring and summer, and sometimes in autumn. Chinook wind tends to warm the state significantly in the winter and early spring...

Battlefield, located 20 miles (32 km) south of Chinook. The city is named for the Chinook wind, a warm wind on eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. Its Gros...

foehn wind, locally known as the Chinook wind, Bergwind or Diablo wind or Nor'wester depending on the region, provide examples of this type of wind, and...

the North Atlantic Current. Belt regions of the United States Chinook wind Foehn wind Hardiness zone "Cross Country Skiing in Illinois". A1 Trails. Archived...

the Gulf of Alaska, greatly warming temperatures. When coupled with a chinook wind, temperatures well above freezing often result: for example, in the record...

further as the air descends on the leeward side (e.g., the Chinook or the original Föhn). Berg winds do not originate in precipitation, but in the mostly dry...

after the Chinook wind that blows through the Pacific Northwest rather than the Chinook salmon that is also common to the region. Chinook was founded...

4 Chinook was Canada's first turbojet engine, designed by Turbo Research and manufactured by A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. Named for the warm Chinook wind that...

temperature swings are less pronounced in western Alberta due to occasional Chinook winds. Alberta is the fourth largest province by area at 661,848 square kilometres...

12 mph) or less. Not all downslope winds are katabatic. For instance, winds such as the föhn and chinook are rain shadow winds where air driven upslope on the...

atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a Katabatic wind, Foehn wind, or Chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range. When a parcel of air...

Famous Chinook Winds". mountainnature.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2014. "Average Annual Wind Speed at...

10, 1911, from 60 °F or 16 °C to 13 °F or −11 °C. This was due to the Chinook wind, but record was lost to Spearfish, South Dakota, in 1942. As of the census...

opened Chinook Winds Casino at the northern end of the city on property overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Major employers include Chinook Winds Casino,...

temperature changes occur in North American climates susceptible to Chinook winds. For example, the largest 2-minute temperature change of 49 °F (27.2 °C)...

starving the people up the valley, the people of the Chinook Wind who was married to North Wind's daughter Mountain Beaver Woman. The mother of Mountain...

breaks from cold spells in winter when the Chinook wind blows down-slope from the Rocky Mountains. A Chinook on 27 February 1992 caused the temperature...

This is a list of casinos in Oregon. Chinook Winds Indian Head Indian Head (sign) Kah-Nee-Ta Kla-Mo-Ya The Mill The Old Camp Seven Feathers Seven Feathers...

years. In the Great Plains of the United States, these winds are known as a chinook. Downslope winds also occur in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains...

230-foot motorbike leap record. In 2003, Knievel jumped 15 trucks at the Chinook Winds Casino. In late March 2006, Knievel jumped 180 feet over the St. Johns...

moisture, the tropical air masses reach the inland prairies as a Chinook wind or simply "a Chinook", a term which is also synonymous in the Pacific Northwest...

Chinook Winds Adventist Academy is an Independent K–12 Christian school located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist...

The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982...

heavy winds coming out of the mouth of Knight Inlet, at the upper east end of the strait. Williwaw Chinook wind "Break Out: Arctic Outflow Winds on the...

7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature...