Show the snow chinook ChU look I 1 in the tha northwestern states slates a becu ilaray warm warin dry wind called the chinook which has a wonderful power ot of eating up snow occasionally prevails and a remarkable visitation of this wind occurred in oregon and washington lost last december professor ward writing in science calls attention to the close resemblance between the he chinook winds of the cascade and rocky bocky mountain regions and the celebrated foehn winds of 0 the alps both blow down from the mountain ranges and both produce effects in the 1110 sudden liquefaction of snow that are almost marvelous marve loua there la is no mystery about them although they require particular conditions of atmospheric pressure combined with certain jefferts arising from the position of the mountains with respect to the isothermal imal lines or lines of equal temperature |