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To: Taro who wrote (321890)	1/20/2007 6:26:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574267

Föhn is a local strong wind coming down from the Alps. You didn't know they have Föhn in Japan, right? Even going by the same name (in Katakana) it comes down from the Japanese Alps next to Toyama on the Nihon-kai side of Honshu (main island towards Russia). Geography and Föhn course of today - for free. And they have that wind in France, they call it Le Mistral, and in S. CA they call it the Santa Ana and in the Rockies they call it the Chinook winds. Its when the winds travel down the mountains, heating up as they go.....and apparently changing the ion makeup of the air. Those winds exist all over the planet but what hit Europe this week was not those winds but the kind of storm that hit the Pacific NW a few weeks where hurricane force winds were evident.