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.

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

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.

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!!