They can thank the Olympic Rain Shadow. The Olympic Mountains act as a wall that protects the northeastern Olympic Peninsula and San Juan Islands from the bulk of the rain that moves into the ...

We created a model that zooms in on Hawaii and is able to capture those variations, including the rain shadow effect. Using that model, we simulated the Hawaiian climate at the end of the 21st ...

The reason why the peaks are snow-covered and why hot, dry Death Valley is east of the Sierra Nevada range is the same: They are both the result of the rain shadow effect. To understand how this ...

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 ...

We created a model that zooms in on Hawaii and is able to capture those variations, including the rain shadow effect. Using that model, we simulated the Hawaiian climate at the end of the 21st ...

Its center—at least as far as scientists know—has never seen a single drop, which leads us to perhaps an unfamiliar question: What is a rain shadow? This unique ecosystem sits just east of the ...