What is the Orographic Effect? Like how can you be in one spot and experience two different weathers on each side? Link in text

Question

I’m talking about like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuN3zDVHJFc&feature=youtu.be

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

You see that the person doing the recording is basically standing on a big fuckoff wall, right? The two sides are simply isolated by said big fuckoff wall and stuff like fog can’t spread over to the other side. mountains also alter winds and cause clouds to get stuck so you can have rainfall on one side and sunny weather on the other.