Chinook fever

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of malaise resembling spring fever, said to be felt by newcomers in Calgary during the balmy winter days brought on by the Chinook winds.

Quotations

1963

"You're suffering from a typical case of Chinook fever," the doctor said . . . "People coming here from the coast are particularly vulnerable."