chinook

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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blow a Chinook wind.

Quotations

1947

But that night it chinooked, and I threw off all my blankets, for it blew hot and warm.

1954

it never Chinooked again till early March. . . .

1957

If the weather took to Chinooking, the temperature could rise by eighty degrees in a few hours.