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East Los Angeles, the Gateway Cities, and parts of the San Gabriel Valley average the warmest winter high temps (72 °F, 22 °C) in all of the western U.S., and Santa Monica averages the warmest winter lows (52 °F, 11 °C) in all of the western U.S. Palm Springs, a city in the Coachella Valley, averages high/low/mean temperatures of 75 °F/50 ...
In part, this is due to the rarity of fire. Unlike drier forests, which burn periodically, temperate rain forests are naturally subject to only small-scale disturbances, such as blow-downs and avalanches. This rain forest spans a wide range of latitude - from about 40 degrees north to about 60 degrees north. The differences in climate from ...
The longer the wintertime rain takes to arrive, the longer California and its Mediterranean climate is vulnerable to extreme fire behavior. Fire season in California historically culminated in ...
The dry cold Great Basin desert of California consists of the Owens Valley, and is classified into Great Basin shrub steppe by the WWF, [4] and into the Central Basin and Range ecoregion by the EPA. [5] The deserts in California receive between 2 and 10 inches (51 and 254 mm) of rain per year. [6]
As the narrative of the Southern California wildfires has shifted to identifying the causes behind what could prove to be the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, a common refrain has ...
The rainforests of the Azores (also known as cloud forests, due to the constant cloud coverage caused by orographic lift) are found in the more humid, montane areas that transition from the lower altitude laurissilva. They are generally found at altitudes ranging from 600 to 1,000 m (2,000 to 3,300 ft), and receive 2,000 to 6,000 mm (79 to 236 ...
As of Saturday evening, 11 people had been killed and more than 12,000 buildings and structures have been destroyed. More than 153,000 people are under evacuation alerts and a more than a dozen ...
The tropical wet forests of North America have an average year-round temperature between 68 and 78.8 °F (26.0 °C). Thus, frost does not occur under these conditions. [2] The temperatures remain fairly uniform throughout the year; therefore there is not a change of seasons. There is also no dry season, as all months experience precipitation.