rain shadow

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rain shadow (plural rain shadows)

  1. (meteorology) An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 59:
      In the modern day, the Andes cast a very strong rain shadow, resulting in the extreme aridity of the Atacama Desert.

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