In the Rocky Mountains, it’s called a Chinook wind; in the Alps, it is called favogn; in the Andes, it’s called a puelche. As the air sinks and compresses into a low pressure trough ...

Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela told reporters that in addition to the heat wave, the dry and hot Puelche wind from the eastern cordillera was also expected in the central-southern zone.