Windward Side - the side of an object facing the direction from which the wind is blowing
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windward side - The side of a mountain, ridge, or other flow obstacle facing toward the direction of the large-scale or ridge-top wind; the upwind side; opposite of leeward.
Windward side The side of an object facing into the wind.
Winter solstice Approximately December 22 in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun is lowest in the sky and directly overhead at latitude 23 deg S,the Tropic of Capricorn.
Windward Side - The side of an object that is facing into the direction that the wind is coming from.
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The windward side is usually very wet while the lee side can be a dry desert. Rainfall in Australia is greater in the east due to the influence of the Great Dividing Range.
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RAIN SHADOW Also referred to as a precipitation shadow, it is the region on the lee side of a mountain or similar barrier where the precipitation is less than on the windward side.
Rain Shadow: The region on the lee side of a mountain or mountain range, where precipitation is decreased compared to the windward side.
Orographic precipitation is well known on oceanic islands, such as the Hawaiian Islands, where much of the rainfall received on an island is on the windward side, and the leeward side tends to be quite dry, almost desert-like, by comparison.
The steep leeward boundary of cumuliform clouds that form on the peaks and upper windward side of the mountains appears as a vertical wall.
Moist air is forced up the mountains bringing both cloud and precipitation to the windward side. The descending air then becomes warmer and drier as it is forced down the leeward side of the mountains.
Therefore, even though the wind blows over the mountain, condensation processes and associated cloud droplets are confined to the windward side. This is why orographic clouds begin on the windward side of the mountain and end near the summit.
UPWIND The direction from which the wind is blowing. Also the windward side of an object. The opposite of the downwind or leeward side.
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A region on the leeward side of a mountain or similar barrier where precipitation is less than on the windward side. For example, eastern TAS is in the rain shadow of the central plateau receives far less rain than western TAS.
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Uplifted air on the windward side reaches saturation forming a cloud over the mountain crest, while subsiding or downslope winds on the leeward side warm and dry out the air, causing sufficient evaporation to abruptly terminate the cloud form.
The region on the leeside of a mountain where the precipitation is noticeable less than on the windward side.
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Rain Shadow Areas of the leeward side of a mountain or mountain range which often receive much less rain than the windward side.
Rain Shadow The region on the leeside of a mountain where the precipitation is noticeable less than on the windward side.
TROUGH- Low pressure that develops just east of the Rocky Mountains due to flow over the higher elevation region. Often lee troughs become organized into mature cyclones as they develop eastward. The lee wardside is the opposite of the windward side.
Rime An accumulation of granular ice tufts on the windward sides of exposed objects that is formed from supercooled fog or cloud and built out directly against the wind. River basin The total area drained by a river and its tributaries.
 See also: Windward, Water, Weather, Surface, Air
  
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