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      August 2026 PNW Weather

      Monty Python would be proud
      Snownerd3000 in West of the Rockies
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      August 2026 PNW Weather

      Could be part of why the Trinity Alps region supports some of the most diverse coniferous forest in the world. There are areas where you can find upwards of 15 coniferous tree species on one patch of ground.
      Eugene-5SW in West of the Rockies
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      August 2026 PNW Weather

      Post of the year
      Doom Buster in West of the Rockies
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      August 2026 PNW Weather

      oof Fire Watch issued for Saturday. here we go again
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      Phishy Wx in West of the Rockies
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      August 2026 PNW Weather

      That area is really interesting. It's the only major terrain divide between the Puget-Willamette basin and the Central Valley. It acts as a permanent occluded front of sorts, barring strong weather systems; Grants Pass northward recieving maritime polar flow filling in from the NW and overtopping the coastal mountains; and Redding southward getting the subtropical return flow filtering up the Central Valley from the Bay Area and the subtropical Pacific. The fact that the pass just so happens to straddle the median latitude between the polar jet and the subtropical jet, exacerbates this effect. Right along the coast, it's a gradual north to south climate shift. Douglas Firs in Oregon, to Redwoods in NorCal, to Coastal Oak south of the Bay Area. Inland, you go from Ponderosa and Douglas hybrid forest right around Shasta, to the proper desert SW just an hour down I5. It's like squeezing 1000 miles of climate differential into 50 miles
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      Meatyorologist in West of the Rockies
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