Im not sure where youre located or what you know about the history of the Pacific Northwest or how much of the particular special lexicon around here you  may be aware of  But let me tell you this really loud and clear  a certain warm wet southwesterly typically days in duration is called a Chinook by fishermen sailors ferry crews loggers and yes the weathermen who use the term as part of the loca argot in the same way they commonly use out on the chuck meaning out on the water and thats not in Canadian meteorologic usages either  The media in this case are not incorrect but rather using the existing local tgerminology often kinda proudly as also with the saltchuckchuck references its not the first time that standard Canadian usages are completely clueless or heedless of British Columbian usage  It may not in fact be the same wind there being in the old days no way to call what is now Alberta and let em know the tropical air mass was on its way over all I know is the term IS part of the marine and weather lexicons in BCand at least in Whatcom County where KVOSTV  is one of the stations who use the term  As fort the directional thing its pretty clear with the Prairie version of the wind that the direction from the country ofthe Chinooks IS the origin especially when you consdier that the fur traders HQ on the Pacific Slope was in Chinook territory Fort Vancouver  The directional thing on the coast is clear if youve ever seen a satellite video of a Chinook which looks like a big thick band of white cloud streaming in from the general direction of Hawaii but more specifically SSW even SSWxS pretty much in a line over the Olympic Peninsula Greater Victoria andheadingto into Greater Vancouver from the direction of Tsawswassen which incientally if you draw back in scale you can see is also roughly the direction of the mouth of hte Coluymbia ie the coujntry of the Chinooks  But compassexact directions arent hte issue nautical ones are  And it so happens that Chinooks arriving in Nuuchahbnuolth teritory would be coming from the southwest ie around C ape Flattery but nobody in those days was splitting hairs like you are they came to use the term Chinook to mean a warm wet wind from that general direction  The same as Squamish wind means a cold harsh northerly outflow wind which in the Georgai Straitnortthern Puget Sound happens to be from the north and the direction of the country of the Skxwumesh people at what is now the town of Squamish  Anyway aside from all that Ive vgot requests in to Gobal CBCand other weriters I know of hoping for a proper cite or at least a news item from the vancouver sun  I dont care about your objections youre just plain wrong  And if Canadian meteorologic usage hasnt included this term its their fault not those of the BC broadcasters who still use it still because it dates back to the old days its nopt the first time that Canadian publications of any kiknd have omitted BC  perspectives or simply gotten things all wrong  And if you ask a Chinook person youll find out that the correct pronunciation of the original word IS Tshinuk the Albertan prononciation is a frenchified affectation