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Adiabatic warming of downward moving air; this produces the warm föhn wind called a “Chinook”.
Chinook winds /ʃɪˈnʊk/, or simply Chinooks, are föhn winds[1] in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest.[2]
Chinook is claimed[by whom?] by popular folk-etymology to mean ‘ice-eater’, however it is the name of the people in the region where the usage was first derived.[citation needed] The reference to a wind or weather system, simply ‘a Chinook’, originally meant[by whom?] a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of the USA (the Chinook people lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River).
A strong föhn wind can make snow one foot (30 cm) deep almost vanish in one day[citation needed]. The snow partly melts and partly sublimates[3] in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20 °C (−4 °F) to as high as 10–20 °C (50–68 °F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels. The greatest recorded temperature change in 24 hours was caused by Chinook winds on 15 January 1972, in Loma, Montana; the temperature rose from −48 to +9 °C (−54 to +49 °F).[4]
Contents
1 In Canada
2 Versus the Arctic air mass
3 Chinook arch
4 Cause of occurrence
5 The Manyberries Chinook
6 In the Pacific Northwest
6.1 Pronunciation in the Pacific Northwest
7 First nations myth from British Columbia
8 Gardening
9 Health
10 Records
11 Chinooks and föhn winds in the inland United States
12 See also
13 References
In Canada[edit]
Where Chinooks occur most frequently.
Chinooks are most prevalent over southern Alberta in Canada, especially in a belt from Pincher Creek and Crowsnest Pass through Lethbridge, which get 30–35 Chinook days per year, on average. Chinooks become less frequent further south in the United States, and are not as common north of Red Deer, but they can and do occur annually as far north as High Level in northwestern Alberta and Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, and as far south as Las Vegas and occasionally to Carlsbad, both in eastern New Mexico.
In southwestern Alberta, Chinook winds can gust in excess of hurricane force 120 km/h (75 mph). On 19–November 1962, an especially powerful Chinook in Lethbridge gusted to 171 km/h (106 mph).[citation needed]
In Pincher Creek, the temperature rose by 41 °C (74 °F), from −19 to 22 °C (−2 to 72 °F), in one hour in 1962.[5] Trains have been known to be derailed by Chinook winds.[citation needed] During the winter, driving can be treacherous, as the wind blows snow across roadways, sometimes causing roads to vanish and snowdrifts to pile up higher than a metre. Empty semitrailer trucks driving along Highway 3 and other routes in southern Alberta have been blown over by the high gusts of wind caused by Chinooks.
Calgary, Alberta also gets many Chinooks – the Bow Valley in the Canadian Rockies west of the city acts as a natural wind tunnel, funneling the chinook winds.[citation needed]
On 27 February 1992, Claresholm, Alberta a small city just south of Calgary; recorded a temperature of 24 °C (75 °F)[6] again the next day 21 °C (70 °F) was recorded.[6] These are some of Canada's highest February temperatures.[citation needed]
Versus the Arctic air mass[edit]
The Chinook can seem to do battle with the Arctic air mass at times. It is not unheard of for people in Lethbridge to complain of −20 °C (−4 °F) temperatures while those in Cardston, just 77 km (48 mi) down the road, enjoy 10 °C (50 °F) temperatures. This clash of temperatures can remain stationary, or move back and forth, in the latter case causing such fluctuations as a warm morning, a bitterly cold afternoon, and a warm evening. A curtain of fog often accompanies the clash between warm to the west and cold to the east.
Chinook arch[edit]
One of its most striking features is the Chinook arch, a föhn cloud in the form of a band of stationary stratus clouds caused by air rippling over the mountains due to orographic lifting. To those unfamiliar with it, the Chinook arch may look like a threatening storm cloud at times. However, they rarely produce rain or snow. They can also create stunning sunrises and sunsets.
The stunning colours seen in the Chinook arch are quite common. Typically, the colours will change throughout the day, starting with yellow, orange, red and pink shades in the morning as the sun comes up, grey shades at midday changing to pink / red colours, and then orange / yellow hues just before the sun sets.
Chinook arch over Calgary, 6 January 2003
The extreme colours of a Chinook arch
Chinook arch in Calgary, Alberta, 19 November 2005
Chinook arch over Calgary, March 2007
Chinook arch over Kelowna, BC, Canada, 2 October 2007
Chinook arch in southern Alberta
Cause of occurrence[edit]
The Chinook is a föhn wind, a rain shadow wind which results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes.
As moist winds from the Pacific (also called “Chinooks”) are forced to rise over the mountains, the moisture in the air is condensed and falls out as precipitation, while the air cools at the moist adiabatic rate of 5 °C / 1000 m (3.5 °F / 1000 ft). The dried air then descends on the leeward side of the mountains, warming at the dry adiabatic rate of 10 °C / 1000 m (5.5 °F / 1000 ft).[7]
The turbulence of the high winds also can prevent the usual nocturnal temperature inversion from forming on the lee side of the slope, allowing night-time temperatures to remain elevated.[7]
Quite often, when the Pacific Northwest coast is being drenched by rain, the windward side of the Rockies is being hammered by snow (as the air loses its moisture), and the leeward side of the Rockies in Alberta is basking in a föhn Chinook. The three different weather conditions are all caused by the same flow of air, hence the confusion over the use of the name “Chinook wind”.
Two common cloud patterns seen during this time are a chinook arch overhead, and a bank of clouds (also referred to as a cloud wall) obscuring the mountains to the west. It appears to be an approaching storm, but does not advance any further east.
The Manyberries Chinook[edit]
Often, a Chinook is preceded by a “Manyberries Chinook” during the end of a cold spell. This southeast wind was named for the small village Manyberries, now a hamlet, in southeastern Alberta, from where the wind seems to originate. It can be fairly strong and cause bitter windchill and blowing snow. The wind will eventually swing around to the southwest and the temperature rises sharply as the real Chinook arrives.[citation needed]
In the Pacific Northwest[edit]
Main article: Pineapple Express
The term Chinook wind is also used in British Columbia, and is the original usage, being rooted in the lore of coastal tribes and brought to Alberta by the fur-traders.[2][8] Such winds are extremely wet and warm and arrive off the western coast of North America from the southwest. The winds are also known as the pineapple express, since they are of tropical origin, roughly from the area of the Pacific near Hawaii. The air associated with a west coast Chinook is stable; this minimizes wind gusts and often keeps winds light in sheltered areas. In exposed areas, fresh gales are frequent during a Chinook, but strong gale- or storm-force winds are uncommon (most of the region’s stormy winds come when a fast ‘westerly’ jet stream lets air masses from temperate and subarctic latitudes clash).
When a Chinook comes in when an Arctic air mass is holding steady over the coast, the tropical dampness brought in suddenly cools, penetrating the frozen air and coming down in volumes of powder snow, sometimes to sea level. Snowfalls and the cold spells that spawned them only last a few days during a Chinook; as the warm Chinooks blow from the southwest, they push back east the cold Arctic air. The snow melts quickly and is gone within a week.
The effects on the Interior of British Columbia when a Chinook is in effect are the reverse. In a rainy spell, most of the heavy moisture will be soaked out by the ramparts of mountains before the air mass reaches the Fraser Canyon and the Thompson River-Okanagan area. The effects are similar to those of an Alberta Chinook, though not to the same extreme, in part because the Okanagan is relatively warmer than the Prairies, and because of the additional number of precipitation-catching mountain ranges between Kelowna and Calgary. When the Chinook brings snow to the coast during a period of coastal cold, bright but chilly weather in the interior will give way to a slushy melting of snow, more due to the warm spell than because of rain.
The resulting outflow wind is more or less the opposite of British Columbia / Pacific Northwest Chinook. These are called a squamish in certain areas, rooted in the direction of such winds coming down out of Howe Sound, home to the Squamish people, and in Alaska are called a williwaw. They consist of cold airstreams from the continental air mass pouring out of the interior plateau via certain river valleys and canyons penetrating the Coast Mountains towards the coast.
Pronunciation in the Pacific Northwest[edit]
The word “Chinook” is in common usage among local fishermen and people in communities along the British Columbia Coast and coastal Washington and Oregon. The term is also used in the Puget Sound area of Washington. “Chinook” is not pronounced as it is east of the Cascades – shinook – but is in the original coastal pronunciation tshinook.[9]
In British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest, the word Chinook was once often pronounced /tʃɪˈnʊk/ chi-NUUK.[citation needed] Currently, the common pronunciation throughout most of the Pacific Northwest, Alberta, and the rest of Canada, is /ʃɪˈnʊk/ shi-NUUK, as in French. This difference may be because it was the Métis employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, who were familiar with the Chinook people and country, brought the name east of the Cascades and Rockies, along with their own ethnified pronunciation. Early records are clear that tshinook was the original pronunciation, before the word’s transmission east of the Rockies.[9]
First nations myth from British Columbia[edit]
Native legend of the Lil'wat subgroup of the St'at'imc tells of a girl named Chinook-Wind, who married Glacier, and moved to his country, which was in the area of today's Birkenhead River.[10][11] She pined for her warm sea-home in the southwest, and sent a message to her people. They came to her in a vision in the form of snowflakes, and told her they were coming to get her. They came in great number and quarrelled with Glacier over her, but they overwhelmed him and she went home with them in the end.
While on the one hand this tale tells a tribal family-relations story, and family/tribal history as well, it also seems to be a parable of a typical weather pattern of a southwesterly wind at first bringing snow, then rain, and also of the melting of a glacier, namely the Place Glacier near Gates Lake at Birken. Thus, it also tells of a migration of people to the area – or a war, depending on how the details of the legend might be read, with Chinook-Wind taking the part of Helen in a First Nations parallel to the Trojan War.
Gardening[edit]
The frequent midwinter thaws in Great Plains Chinook country are more of a bane than a blessing to gardeners. Plants can be visibly brought out of dormancy by persistent Chinook winds, or have their hardiness reduced even if they appear to be remaining dormant. In either case, they become vulnerable to later cold waves. Many plants which do well at Winnipeg (where constant cold maintains dormancy all winter) are difficult to grow in the Alberta Chinook belt; examples include basswood, some apple, raspberry and Saskatoon varieties, and Amur maples. Trees in the Chinook-affected areas of Alberta are known to be small, with much less growth than trees in areas not affected by Chinooks. This is once again caused by the ‘off-and-on’ dormancy throughout winter.
Health[edit]
Chinook winds are said to sometimes cause a sharp increase in the number of migraine headaches suffered by the locals. At least one study conducted by the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary supports that belief.[12] They are popularly[clarification needed] believed[by whom?] to increase irritability and sleeplessness. In mid-winter over major centres such as Calgary, Chinooks can often override cold air in the city, trapping the pollutants in the cold air and causing inversion smog. At such times, it is possible for it to be cold at street level and much warmer at the tops of the skyscrapers and in higher terrain. In 1983, on the 45th floor [about 145 m (460 ft) above the street] of the Petro-Canada Center, carpenters worked shirtless in +12 °C, windy conditions (temperature reported to them by overhead crane operator), but were chagrined to find out the street temperature was still −20 °C as they left work at 3:30 that afternoon.[citation needed]
Records[edit]
Loma, Montana, boasts having the most extreme recorded temperature change in a 24-hour period. On 15 January 1972, the temperature rose from −54 °F to 49 °F (−48 °C to 9 °C), a 103 °F (58 °C) change in temperature, a dramatic example of the regional Chinook wind in action.
The Black Hills of South Dakota are home to the world's fastest recorded rise in temperature. On 22 January 1943, at about 7:30 am MST, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota, was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook kicked in, and two minutes later, the temperature was 45 °F (7 °C). The 49 °F (27 °C) rise set a world record, yet to be exceeded. By 9:00 am, the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the Chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to −4°F (−20 °C). The 58 °F (32 °C) drop took only 27 minutes.[13][14]
The aforementioned 107 mph (172 km/h) wind in Alberta and other local wind records west of the 100th meridian on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, as well as instances of the record high and low temperature for a given day of the year being set on the same date, are largely the result of these winds.[citation needed]
On rare occasions, Chinook winds generated on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains have reached as far east as Wisconsin.[15]
Chinooks and föhn winds in the inland United States[edit]
The signature Chinook arch over a Denver suburb in 2006
Chinooks are generally called föhn winds by meteorologists and climatologists, and, regardless of name, can occur in most places on the leeward side of a nearby mountain range. They are called “Chinook winds” throughout most of inland western North America, particularly the Rocky Mountain region. Montana, in particular, has a significant amount of föhn winds across much of the state during the winter months, but particularly coming off the Rocky Mountain Front in the northern and west-central areas of the state.
One such wind occurs in the Cook Inlet region in Alaska as air moves over the Chugach Mountains between Prince William Sound and Portage Glacier. Anchorage residents often believe the warm winds which melt snow and leave their streets slushy and muddy are a midwinter gift from Hawaii, following a common mistake that the warm winds come from the same place as the similar winds near the coasts in southern British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
See also[edit]
Catabatic wind
Diablo wind
Loo (wind)
Nor'west arch
Santa Ana winds
Sundowner winds
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Chinook". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. .
^ Jump up to: a b The Indian and the South Wind, p.156 Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine., p.157 Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine., p.158 Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine. in J.A. Costello's Indian History of the Northwest – Siwash Archived 2007-10-28 at the Wayback Machine., 1909
Jump up ^ "Sublimation - The Water Cycle, from USGS Water-Science School". water.usgs.gov.
Jump up ^ Andrew H. Horvitz, et al. On 13 September 2002 citing a unanimous recommendation from the National Climate Extremes Committee, the Director of NCDC accepted the Loma, Montana 24 hour temperature change of 103°F, making it the new official national record.
Jump up ^ The Atlas of Canada – Weather Archived 2010-03-23 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Jump up to: a b "Daily Data Report for February 1992 – Claresholm Waterworks Station". Environment Canada. Environment Canada. Retrieved 28 April 2016. [permanent dead link]
^ Jump up to: a b Whiteman, C. David (2000). Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications. Oxford University Press.
Jump up ^ The Facts on File Encyclopedia or Word and Phrase Origins, Checkmark Books, New York, 2000
^ Jump up to: a b Example of tshinook original pronunciation from Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes etc. by William Fraser Tolmie, 1884.
Jump up ^ Short Portage to Lillooet, Irene Edwards, self-published, Lillooet, various editions
Jump up ^ Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy. (1977).Lillooet Stories. Victoria Sound Heritage 6.1.
Jump up ^ Chinooks and Health. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
Jump up ^ "South Dakota Weather History and Trivia January". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service.
Appendix I: "Weather Extremes" Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine.. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document).
Jump up ^ Parker, Watson (1981). Deadwood: The Golden Years, p.158. Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska. – ISBN 978-0-8032-8702-0.
Jump up ^ Burrows, Alvin. "The Chinook Winds". Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture. US Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
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List of Buffalo Bills first-round draft picks
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The Buffalo Bills are an American football franchise based in Orchard Park, New York. They are members of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division in the National Football League (NFL).[1]
Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as "the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", which is more commonly known as the NFL Draft. The NFL Draft, as a whole, gives the advantage to the teams that did poorly the previous season. The 30 teams that did not make the Super Bowl are ranked in order so the team with the worst record picks first and the team with the best record pick last. The two exceptions to this inverse order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion selects 32nd overall, and the Super Bowl loser selects 31st overall. If the franchise so chooses, they may trade their draft picks for any combination of draft picks, players, and money.[2]
Key[edit]
Table key
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Year
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Player selections[edit]
Bruce Smith, drafted by the Bills in 1985, became a Hall of Famer in 2009.
Buffalo Bills first-round draft picks
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1966
8 Mike Dennis RB Ole Miss
1967
22 John Pitts S Arizona State
1968
9 Haven Moses WR San Diego State
1969
1 O.J. Simpson ^ RB USC
1970
5 Al Cowlings DT Southern California
1971
4 J. D. Hill WR Arizona State
1972
1 Walt Patulski DE Notre Dame
1973
7 Paul Seymour TE Michigan
1973
26 Joe DeLamielleure ^ G Michigan State
1974
18 Reuben Gant TE Oklahoma State
1975
19 Tom Ruud LB Nebraska
1976
18 Mario Clark DB Oregon
1977
12 Phil Dokes DT Oklahoma State
1978
5 Terry Miller RB Oklahoma State
1979
1 Tom Cousineau LB Ohio State
1979
5 Jerry Butler WR Clemson
1980
16 Jim Ritcher C North Carolina State
1981
28 Booker Moore RB Penn State
1982
19 Perry Tuttle WR Clemson
1983
12 Tony Hunter TE Notre Dame
1983
14 Jim Kelly ^ QB Miami (FL)
1984
26 Greg Bell RB Notre Dame
1985
1 Bruce Smith ^ DE Virginia Tech
1985
14 Derrick Burroughs DB Memphis State
1986
16 Ronnie Harmon RB Iowa
1986
20 Will Wolford OT Vanderbilt
1987
8 Shane Conlan LB Penn State
1988
— — No pick — —
1989
— — No pick — —
1990
16 James Williams DB Fresno State
1991
26 Henry Jones DB Illinois
1992
27 John Fina OT Arizona
1993
28 Thomas Smith DB North Carolina
1994
27 Jeff Burris DB Notre Dame
1995
14 Ruben Brown G Pittsburgh
1996
24 Eric Moulds WR Mississippi State
1997
23 Antowain Smith RB Houston
1998
— — No pick — —
1999
23 Antoine Winfield DB Ohio State
2000
26 Erik Flowers DE Arizona State
2001
21 Nate Clements DB Ohio State
2002
4 Mike Williams OT Texas
2003
23 Willis McGahee RB Miami (FL)
2004
13 Lee Evans WR Wisconsin
2004
22 J. P. Losman QB Tulane
2005
— — No pick — —
2006
8 Donte Whitner S Ohio State
2006
26 John McCargo DT North Carolina State
2007
12 Marshawn Lynch RB California
2008
11 Leodis McKelvin DB Troy
2009
11 Aaron Maybin DE Penn State
2009
28 Eric Wood C Louisville
2010
9 C.J. Spiller RB Clemson
2011
3 Marcell Dareus DT Alabama
2012
10 Stephon Gilmore CB South Carolina
2013
16 EJ Manuel QB Florida State
2014
4 Sammy Watkins WR Clemson
2015
— — No pick — — [3]
2016
19 Shaq Lawson DE Clemson
2017
27 Tre'Davious White CB LSU
2018
7 Josh Allen QB Wyoming
2018
16 Tremaine Edmunds LB Virginia Tech
References[edit]
General
"Buffalo Bills NFL Draft History". Retrieved 2012-04-28.
"Buffalo Bills 1st Round Draft History". Retrieved 2012-04-28.
Specific
Jump up ^ "Buffalo Bills Team Page – NFL.com". NFL. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ Alder, James. ""NFL Draft Basics:Determining Order of Selection"". About.com. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
Jump up ^ Traded to Cleveland Browns in 2014
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