On 8/14/2014 1:50 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
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. :-)
Yup. Pretty much like NorCal. I was interested in the comments suggesting Sept. At least on our coast, while that's a
good weather month, in spring it's alive with wildflowers. Because of the coolish, often foggy weather, there are
wildflowers even in late summer, but nothing like the peak.
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.
Yup again. This year, we stayed in State Parks somewhat inland. We could go either direction, depending on the day's
weather.
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.
Sounds familiar, very familiar. The lighthouse at Pt. Reyes famously has a looooog flight of stairs down to it. Why
isn't it at the top of the headland? Because, heavy fog is less common lower.
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.
Yes, we've spent a couple of weeks total in the redwoods this year so far -
tallish. ;-)
Maybe next spring.
Travelin' Moose
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