Have you ever stood at the base of a mountain, looked up, and wondered why the weather above seems completely different from ...

such as the Atacama desert, beyond the Chilean Andes. The east slopes of the Coast Range in central and northern California also creates a rain shadow effect in the San Joaquin Valley. Regions ...

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