<Li> San Jose, California and adjacent cities are usually drier than the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area because of the rain shadow cast by the highest part of the Santa Cruz Mountains . </Li> <Li> The Dungeness Valley around Sequim, Washington lies in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains . The area averages 10--15 inches of rain per year, less than half of the amount received in nearby Port Angeles and approximately 10% of that which falls in Forks on the western side of the mountains . To a lesser extent, this rain shadow extends to other parts of the eastern Olympic Peninsula, Whidbey Island, and parts of the San Juan Islands and southeastern Vancouver Island around Victoria, British Columbia . </Li> <Li> The Mojave, Black Rock, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts all are in regions which are rain shadowed . </Li> <Li> The Owens Valley in the United States, behind the Sierra Nevada range in California . </Li>

The land on the leeward side of a mountain range is in a rain shadow