Foehn Wind - Local Examples

Local Examples

Regionally, these winds are known by many different names. These include:

• Föhn in Austria, southern Germany, Switzerland, France, Liechtenstein, and German-speaking regions of Northern Italy
• Favonio in Ticino and Italy
• Sirocco in Italy
• Bergwind in South Africa
• Chinook winds east of the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Range in the United States and Canada, and north, east and west of the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, United States
• Fogony in the Catalan Pyrenees
• Föhn in Wollongong and South Coast, NSW, Australia. Often associated with heavy orographic lifiting on the windward side of the escarpment
• Garmesh, Garmij, Garmbaad (Warm Wind): (Persian: گرمباد‎, Gilaki: گرمش) in Gilan region, in the south west of Caspian Sea in Iran
• Halny in the Carpathian Mountains, Poland (Central Europe)
• North-East Scotland, south-westerly winds create a Föhn effect bringing relatively warm temperatures on the lee side of the Grampians and Cairngorm mountain ranges. The reverse occurs when south-easterly winds create a Föhn effect to the North-West of Scotland, with the air drying out and warming up as it crosses the Grampians and Cairngorms from east to west. With the prevailing wind direction in the UK being from the west or south west, the Föhn effect in Scotland is more common in the North-East of the country, with the west of Scotland being much wetter.
• The Helm wind, on the Pennines in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, England
• Hnúkaþeyr in Icelandic
• Lyvas wind in Elefsina and Athens in Greece
• The Nor'wester in Hawkes Bay, Canterbury, and Otago, New Zealand
• Puelche wind in Chile
• Terral in Málaga (southern Spain)
• Vântul Mare in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania
• Viento del Sur (Southern Wind) in the Cantabrian region (northern Spain)
• Zonda winds in Argentina
• Nortada in Cascais, and most notoriously in Guincho Beach, making it one of the best windsurfing spots in Europe
• Wuhan in China is famously known as one of the three furnaces on account of its extremely hot weather in summer resulting from the adiabatic warming effect created by mountains further south.

The Santa Ana winds of southern California, including the Sundowner winds of Santa Barbara, are in some ways similar to the Föhn, but originate in dry deserts as a katabatic wind.