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ö
/ føːn; fɜːn /
noun
- a warm dry wind blowing down the northern slopes of the Alps. It originates as moist air blowing from the Mediterranean, rising on reaching the Alps and cooling at the saturated adiabatic lapse rate, and descending on the leeward side, warming at the dry adiabatic lapse rate, thus gaining heat See also lapse rate
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Example Sentences
Known as the Föhn or Föhnwind in the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, they are associated in folk belief with a range of symptoms including migraines, depression, sleeplessness, confusion, and increased risk of accidents.
In Switzerland, for example, researchers found Föhn winds led to fires burning three times as much area than on days where there were no such winds.
This was followed by the strongest ö storms in recent years, causing record temperatures in October 2018.
A mild ö wind has brought unseasonably high temperatures to lowland Switzerland, but areas above 1,400m altitude have seen more than a metre of snowfall in recent days, the Swiss broadcaster SRF said, tweeting pictures, with more forecast.
We hop into the inflatable black Zodiacs and land half a dozen times, in the Falklands and South Georgia, but skip another three or four because of high seas, fog, or katabatic and ö winds that whip up to hurricane force in a minute, knocking penguins hilariously over before receding just as quickly.
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