<span>Areas immediately to the leeward of the mountains have a microclimate with sparse precipitation called a rain shadow.
It is described as "</span><span> a patch of land that has been forced to become a </span>desert because<span> mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy </span><span>weather" On one side of the mountain the weather is wet, rainy and snowy. And on the other side (the rain shadow) there are no precipitations. </span>
The term for <span>heat transfer because of direct contact is know as </span>conduction.
