Fohn in a sentence as a noun

I am from a native English speaking country and I had never heard the word foehn or fohn in my life, so assumed it was a typo of foot. Which coincidentally happens to have a similar contention as standing on fresh snow compacts it, but only from the comments did I guess it was supposed to be a melting analogy.

Fohn definitions

noun

a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps

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