rain shadow

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   an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it

   Broaderarea

Questions about rain shadow

What does rain shadow mean?

rain shadow means "an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it".

Is rain shadow a common word?

rain shadow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.