In the south, we find the Crater Lake National Park, where there is a lake that occupies a caldera formed by the explosion of a volcano that took place 7,700 years ago. Other high peaks are Mount Jefferson (3,201 meters or 10,502 ft), and the highest of the 'Three Sisters', the South Sister (3,185 meters or 10,499 ft). Mount Hood, 3,425 meters (11,237 ft) high, is Oregon's highest peak. The area is protected in the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest.Īt 150/200 km (95/125 mi) away from the coast, and parallel to it, we find the Cascade Range. To the south, on the border with California, the Coast Range continues and widens in the Klamath Mountains, which are higher especially in California, where it exceeds 2,500 meters or 8,200 ft (in Oregon it reaches 1,600 meters or 5,250 ft). A short distance from the coast we find a chain of hills and low mountains, the Oregon Coast Range, whose highest peak is Marys Peak, 1,250 meters (4,100 ft) high. Here is the average precipitation in Bend. However, given that the winter is cold, it can sometimes snow. For this reason, precipitation is often lower than 300 mm (12 in) per year, as happens for example in Hermiston, Baker City, Bend, Ontario. The center-east of Oregon, which as mentioned is largely covered by a plateau, is arid, because the humid currents from the Pacific have discharged most of the rains on the western side and on the mountains. Given the amount of snow that falls, the snowline is quite low, and on the slopes of the highest mountains, it is already found at 2,100 meters (7,000 ft). For example, at Government Camp, 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) above sea level, at the base of Mount Hood, precipitation amounts to 2,200 mm (87 in) per year, with 6 meters and 85 cm (270 inches) of snow per year, while at Crater Lake National Park, 2,150 meters (7,000 ft) above sea level, even 14 meters (550 in) of snow fall per year. In the Cascade Range, precipitation increases again with altitude. For example, in Astoria, in the northern part, the average temperature ranges from 6 ☌ (43 ☏) in December to 16 ☌ (61 ☏) in August. However, the interior is a little sunnier than the coast.Īlong the coast (see Astoria, Tillamook, Newport, Brookings), temperatures vary little between winter and summer. In some inland valleys, but also on the coast, fog can form in winter. In the rest of the year, however, the sky is cloudy during the frequent periods in which low pressure systems dominate, however, between one disturbance and another, the sun can also come out. Oregon is therefore a sunny state in the summer, when the North Pacific High prevails. Oregon is a state in northwestern United States, located south of Washington state and north of California.įor most of the year, Oregon receives humid ocean currents, but in summer, particularly in July and August, the weather improves because of the sub-tropical high pressure system of the Pacific. In the Cascade Range, which separates the western part influenced by the ocean and the arid eastern part, heavy snowfalls occur. In the inland areas, there are also low-altitude valleys and not large plain areas, in which the climate becomes almost Mediterranean, given that the winter is mild enough and the summer is hot and sunny.

* Updated неділя 5 Березень 2023 p.Oregon's climate is cool and humid on the coast, semi-oceanic with hot and dry summers in the Willamette Valley, a short distance from the coast, and arid continental in the plateau that covers the inland areas. Business Date to Date (exclude holidays).

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