What is a Chinook in geography?

Being Canadian, I would have to leave if I got this wrong eh! hahaa

MsZippyPants, I heard of Chinook helicopters, so I guessed wind.

KAP, I thought of Chinook travel mobiles

Cow Town gets good Chinooks and I think The Hat does as well. Going down the Trans-Can, Speedy Creek and Moose Juice get the tail end and the Queen City gets left out in the cold.

In Colorado we have these winds come in January which gives us a very nice respite from the cold.

KAP, you are lucky. I never heard of the helicopters,but I have heard of Chinook fish and Native Americans. which didn't help meat all.

I think it was that great defender of the climate Leonardo DiCaprio who, when experiencing a Chinook in Alberta, used it as an example of severe climate change. :-):-):-):-)

I wish the places in the photos used in the questions were named they seldom are.

Being from the deep south, I'd never heard this term. Interesting!

just wow!!