Editing Rain shadow (section)

====Southern Europe====
[[File:Vista satelital de la cordillera Cantábrica en toda su extensión, señalada mediante un recuadro rojo.jpg|thumb|230px|Cantabrian Mountains in the north, which rain-shadow most of Spain]]
* The [[Cantabrian Mountains]] form a sharp division between "[[Green Spain]]" to the north and the dry central plateau. The northern-facing slopes receive heavy rainfall from the [[Bay of Biscay]], but the southern slopes are in rain shadow. The other most evident effect on the Iberian Peninsula occurs in the [[Almería (province)|Almería]], [[Region of Murcia|Murcia]] and [[Alicante (province)|Alicante]] areas, each with an average rainfall of {{convert|300|mm|in|abbr=on}}, which are the driest spots in Europe (see [[Cabo de Gata]]) mostly a result of the mountain range running through their western side, which blocks the westerlies.
* The [[Norte Region, Portugal|Norte Region]] in [[Portugal]] has extreme differences in precipitation with values surpassing {{convert|3000|mm|in|abbr=on}} in the [[Peneda-Gerês National Park]] to values close to {{convert|500|mm|in|abbr=on}} in the [[Douro Valley]]. Despite being only {{convert|28|km|mi|abbr=on}} apart, [[Chaves, Portugal|Chaves]] has less than half the precipitation of [[Montalegre]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Iberian Climatic Atlas |url=http://www.ipma.pt/resources.www/docs_pontuais/ocorrencias/2011/atlas_clima_iberico.pdf |publisher=[[IPMA]], [[AEMET]] |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref>
* The eastern part of the [[Pyrenees|Pyrenean mountains]] in the south of France ([[Cerdagne]]).
* In the Northern [[Apennines]] of [[Italy]], Mediterranean city [[La Spezia]] receives twice the rainfall of Adriatic city [[Rimini]] on the eastern side. This is also extended to the southern end of the Apennines that see vast rainfall differences between [[Naples]] with above {{convert|1000|mm|in}} on the Mediterranean side and [[Bari]] with about {{convert|560|mm|in}} on the Adriatic side.
* The valley of the [[Vardar River]] and south from [[Skopje]] to [[Athens]] is in the rain shadow of the [[Accursed Mountains]] and [[Pindus Mountains]]. On its windward side the Accursed Mountains has the highest rainfall in Europe at around {{convert|5000|mm|in|-1}} with small glaciers even at mean annual temperatures well above {{convert|0|C|F}}, but the leeward side receives as little as {{convert|400|mm|in}}.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}