Talk:Rain shadow

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Meteorology
 This article related to meteorology and/or specific weather events is part of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events, an attempt to standardize and improve all articles related to weather or meteorology. You can help! Visit the project page or discuss an article at its talk page.
Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale.
Mid This article has been rated as mid-importance within WikiProject Meteorology.

Contents

[edit] Better Diagram

I applaud the diagram explaining the effect of rainshadow, though perhaps we can get an even better one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainier5 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


I moved this page "back" to Rain shadow as it is clearly an article about that "place". We already have an article about the "effect", called Orographic precipitation. - Marshman 18:45, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm doing this for schoolwork, so I added thed Sum It Up part, since the beginning sounded a little unorgainzed and confused, although I don't want to delete it. -Freddy Tsao

[edit] Merge Tag Removal

The consensus appears to be no merge. See Orographic lift talk page for discussion. Tag removed today. Williamborg (Bill) 03:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge to rainshadow

From what i gather rain shadow and rainshadow are the same thing -- PlaneMad|YakYak 09:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Support Merge—Makes perfect sense that two spellings of the same word(s) be merged. Who'd have thought we'd be sloppy enough as to create these in parallel... Williamborg (Bill) 15:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Merge obviously yes Chassig 00:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Merge they are the exactly the same thing

--ExterayT.C 22:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Support Merge Same thing, need to be made one. --Doctorcherokee 19:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Suppor Merge. Why wait? Kablammo 02:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Merge Mountolive | Talk 05:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Merge Still waiting? David 07:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Support Merge This is silly! It's the same thing. --Earthsprite 05:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

MERGED. There is not much to merge in the other article, this one is much better and contains true science. I have put some of the other article in the Description section, but much of it is redundant. You can edit at will. I don´t know how, but the other article should be deleted now. David 07:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rain shadow-the definition?

I have always believed a 'rain shadow' was an area of INCREASED rainfall, caused by mountain ranges etc, forcing air to rise, cool and precipitate, creating an area where rainfall is common. I see, of course, and accept, that the current usage is quite the reverse. However, can anyone advise how or why I could have learned this other definition at a UK school (1960's) and if it has been changed at any time. Macthefork 09:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Shenandoah Valley

Here's a precipitation map of Virginia

precipitation:ftp://ftp.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/pub/prism/maps/va.pdf

clearly showing rainfall patterns within the State of Virginia. Several valleys (not only the Shenandoah) within the western part of the State have rainfall much less than areas to the east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, some parts of which are extremely rainy (likely snowy in winter). The driest spot in Virginia that I noticed was in Harrisonburg and surrounding Rockingham County. That's far from being desert, and not quite steppe.

But it can explain why the Shenandoah Valley is more suited to fruit and grain production than wetter parts of the State.


[edit] Rain shadows being cool areas?

I find that highly unlikly. When the water condensate the energy used to keep it in gas form is released into the air, when that air get down to the rainshadow areas it is heated by the increased air densetity meaning that if the place in the rains shadow is at the same altitude as the area infront of the mountain the air will be warmer then on the other side because of the added heat from the water leaving gas form. This only apply when it's allot of wind thou... The norwegian name of this fenomen, not the rain shadow but the special warm wind this areas often have, is "føn vind". Unnless I heare any good argumens for why these areas are cooler then other areas I'll change it later one, when I find some profe of these areas being warmer somewhere else then my physics books.

Ps. I would prefere if somone that's better in english then me would do it thou..

Luredreier 13:18, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, not that it's important, but how do you add a word or a section off an article as questionable?

Luredreier 13:54, 2 February 2008 (UTC)