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> > > Chinook winds? I believe that is Ojibway for "snow eater." I think of them as occurring mostly in the spring. If I remember my science text correctly, they are the result of compressional heating as the cool air flows down the mountain, on the lee side.
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> > Yep, that sounds pretty much correct. I can't verify that it was an Ojibway word, but I'll take your word on it because I know it's some Indian word that means "snow eater". In Edmonton, we get the occasional Chinook from the Rockies in the winter months ....
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> > -Ka"After a while, you get used to the cold"z!
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> I was expecting a post about fish. We get the occasional Chinook from the river, and they taste good.
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> "gabby"

I was expecting a post about helicopters. Here in Manhattan, we occasionally see some Chinooks flying down the Hudson with several West Point students hanging off a wire. They're large birds.

One time, we were walking the Palisades and heard several fly overhead, perhaps sixty feet off the water.

-Faux "always liked helicopters" Pas