Viewed from the perspective of the northern plains, say from North Dakota, Minnesota, or the prairie provinces of Canada, a storms which tracks from the southwest is called a "Colorado low" (From the perspective of Denver, such a storm might be called an "Albuquerque low".) The opposite of a Colorado low, a storm tracking from the northwest, is called an "Alberta clipper. A Colorado low sometimes transports warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico into the northern plains and produces ample precipitation. In contrast, an Alberta clipper, being relatively both cold and dry, may not.