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Meaning of efecto foehn by Felipe Lorenzo del Río




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efecto foehn
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In German and in many other languages, hair dryer. From the Latin Favonius, Favonio, which the Greeks called Zephyr, who lived in a cave of Thrace. In the area of the Alps they call a Mediterranean wind that arrives with a lot of moisture that discharges on the slopes to windward passing then dry and hotter to those of leeward. This change is called by meteorologists the foehn effect ( f-hn ) that occurs in many mountainous areas of the earth and that many relate to certain mental alterations such as depression, migraines, insomnia, madness and even criminal acts.

  

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