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Convective and orographic are often more avoidable - it is the clear-air turbulence that, as the name might imply, cannot be seen.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025

It happened with Hurricane Lane in Hawaii in 2018 and can also happen in other tropical cyclone-prone locations with significant orographic, or mountain, effects, such as the west coast of Mexico.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

The mountainous terrain of the Appalachians is intensifying the rainfall through a process known as orographic lift, in which air rushes up the elevated slopes feeding storm clouds.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

Such mountain-induced precipitation patterns are known as orographic enhancement.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2021

He will also include in his studies certain paleozoic formations which are immediately connected with the crystalline schists and involved in their orographic structure.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various