snow eater


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Noun1.snow eater - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
chinook, chinook wind
air current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
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Similar phenomenon are the Chinook or "snow eater" of the North American Rocky Mountains; the Zonda of the South American Andes; and the Helm wind of the English Pennines.
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These hills are a special place, visited by chinook winds, called the "snow eater" by locals, as warm winds come over the mountains, melting the snow and exposing the grasses.
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Naomi smiled, "And snow eater will come and eat all his snow."
Henry's Christmas: she had no food to give her son. They couldn't sleep in the car. The cold would come in the night as they clung to each other, and they would wait for death

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