Moose: You might find this helpful:
<http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=41998.0>
<http://www.wheelingit.us/2011/09/27/chance-of-precipitation-100-musings-on-the-or-coast-weather/>
The general rule is that given carefully planned trips with due
consideration to temperature, humidity, dew point and wind direction,
the weather will do what it damn well pleases. :-)
We stayed in a beach town with decent views of adjacent headlands north
or south. Each day we asked ourself, "Can we see the capes to the
south? If the answer was no, we did something else a bit inland. Once
the answer was yes, but when we got there, it was fogged in anyway, so
we went somewhere else. The day I took the pictures, the fog bank hung
out a bit beyond shore, and life was good.
I believe the same general rules of thumb apply as N. California, except
your chances of being disappointed are greater. Summer brings the least
amount of rain (July - mid-September), but fog is more likely. Spring
and fall mean less fog, but more and more rain as you get closer to
January. And the higher the headland, the more likely it is to get
fogged. But sometimes only on one side, which can be dramatic and fun
to photograph.
The northern Oregon coast is more heavily forested and has higher
headlands. The trees get shorter and scrubbier the farther south you go,
until it turns into California.
--Peter
> On 8/12/2014 9:48 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> Thanks, Paul and John. We really love it there. You just have to be
dressed for the wind, which is quite stiff and cold. We didn't mind, as
> it's gorgeous. We also appreciated that we escaped a fairly hot week
in Seattle. Of course, this week was hotter, 96 F or 36 C yesterday.
>
> Looks, surprise, surprise, a lot like the NorCal coast. I would like
to see at least some of the Oregon coast. "See" is the operative word. >
Last time we were right at the border, and had come time, it was so
foggy that I could hardly see the sign pointing north for Oregon and >
south for Crescent City.
>
> Is Cape Meares less foggy than other parts of the coast? I'm used to
wind together with fog, so one is cold, damp and can't see anything. >
Wind alone could be OK. Best on the coast I know is that one day or so
out of 4-6 when it's sunny with little wind, as in the Shelter Cove >
sots I posted recently, but they are totally unpredictable.
>
> Coastal Moose
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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