As rain-producing winds travel from west to east across mountain ranges, the mountains themselves block the weather's passage, collecting moisture on one side of the ridge and casting a “shadow ...

Rain Shadow – The region on the lee-side of a mountain. This is where the precipitation is far less than on the windward side. Typically a dry climate. Generic view of Oregon from the Pacific ...

It is hot and dry because the moisture from the Pacific is pulled out of the air as snow on top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Death Valley is in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada range.

The rain shadow effect is a product of the way that water vapor travels over mountain ranges. The air over the ocean picks up water vapor, and as the ocean naturally warms, this water vapor rises.

Mountain slopes facing ... tend to receive the heaviest rain, while some areas such as San Jose and parts of the Salinas Valley, for example, will be in the rain shadow of these mountains, and ...

The rain falls on the side of the mountain where the prevailing winds come from, leaving the other side dry. Hobart is in a rain shadow from Mt Wellington/kunanyi, which blocks the westerly wind ...

The longest continental mountain range in the world creates what’s known as a rain shadow, or an area sheltered by the winds necessary to create clouds—and rain. Read on to learn the ...