单词	rain shadow
释义	rain shadow noun : a region of reduced rainfall on the lee side of high mountains Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web If Provence is the sun king of lavender fields, then Sequim is the rain shadow queen. Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 July 2022 But coastal mountains in the interior of the Yukon and Alaska blocked all precipitation, creating rain shadow patches of land that were too dry to support glaciers. Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022 The final effect is a rain shadow, where there’s significantly less rainfall behind a mountain region. Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021 The Rocky Mountains were continuing to rise, and their rain shadow dried out the Great Plains. Andrew L. Hipp, Scientific American, 15 July 2020 At those elevations, the rain shadow of the Coast Range means slightly lower rainfall totals, cooler springs and warmer autumns. Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020 So we are said to be in the rain shadow of the Himalayas. National Geographic, 16 June 2020 Marchesi credited the combination of rain shadow protection and the loess soils deposited in the region by the prehistoric Missoula Floods with defining the region’s wines. Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020 Michelle’s grapes, like those of all premium wines in the state, are grown far fromthe famously soggy coast, in the rain shadow of the Cascades, where the Columbia,Snake, Yakima, and Walla Walla rivers provide irrigation. Jay Mcinerney, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2017 See More Word History First Known Use 1896, in the meaning defined above
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