Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "There are two main ocean winds: The northwest or dry wind, blowing chiefly in summer, and blowing up the Straits of Fuca, the Chehalis and Columbia River: this makes our cool summers; then there is the southwest or west wind, warm and moist, which blows diagonally across the gaps, made in the series of mountains called the Coast Range, by the Straits of Fuca, and the Chehalis and Columbia Rivers. Nearly all the rain falling in Washington Territory is brought from the ocean in storm clouds by the southwest wind. .. Were there no gaps in the Coast Range from the Straits south to California, but a solid mountain wall over four thousand feet high, the climate of Puget Sound would be like that of Eastern Washington. ... [W]et winter winds reach the Sound through the Chehalis gap." }
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- books?id=AXYxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA14 quote "There are two main ocean winds: The northwest or dry wind, blowing chiefly in summer, and blowing up the Straits of Fuca, the Chehalis and Columbia River: this makes our cool summers; then there is the southwest or west wind, warm and moist, which blows diagonally across the gaps, made in the series of mountains called the Coast Range, by the Straits of Fuca, and the Chehalis and Columbia Rivers. Nearly all the rain falling in Washington Territory is brought from the ocean in storm clouds by the southwest wind. .. Were there no gaps in the Coast Range from the Straits south to California, but a solid mountain wall over four thousand feet high, the climate of Puget Sound would be like that of Eastern Washington. ... [W]et winter winds reach the Sound through the Chehalis gap.".