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Chinook.

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Chinook is an Indian word
for a warm, dry winter

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wind out of the Southwest
and it's a phenomenon

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of the Northern Rockies.

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The greatest temperature change
ever recorded in a 24 hour

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period occurred as the
result of a Chinook

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and it was in Montana in 1972.

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The temperature
went from 56 degrees

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below 0 to 49 degrees above 0.

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In 24 hours, 105 degree
temperature change.

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So as rapidly as they
appear, Chinooks disappear.

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After a day or two of the
warm wind, winter returns.

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And I have to say one
of the biggest stumbling

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blocks to adjusting to
living in Montana was

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the climate, specifically
the winter climate, which

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is why I love being in
Arizona for six months.

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And hopefully,
eventually a whole year.

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"Chinook."

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"Come January,
let winter unweave

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its wreath of departures.

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The cold cup of morning emptied,
a warm wind arrives at my door.

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Each afternoon, sunlight
work begins its solitary

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melt through snow banks,
pass the white steam

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of the cove, a bevy of geese
unlatches from the lake.

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Give me the young stag
mounting his mate,

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the first crack of release
in the ice-encrusted dawn.

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Give me a warm wind stirring
the soft beds of pine needles

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and moss, a Chinook,
waking the eagle

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from his nest in the tall
snag next to the dirt road.

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He takes off to
survey his kingdom,

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where beneath the thick waves
each fish stirs and rises

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toward his urgent cry."

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