This type of wind in the Rockies is known as a chinook, and it often produces rapid temperature changes, particularly in winter. Chinook winds are the result of air rising over mountain ranges.

People who live up against the southern Rockies have experience Foehn wind, but what is it exactly, and how is it created?

Calgarians know all too well how unpredictable the weather can be, but what causes this unpredictability? Chinook winds — ...

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close ...