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Oregon rainfall varies widely from region to region. Precipitation in the state varies widely: some western coastal slopes approach 200 inches (5,100 mm) annually, while the driest places, such as the Alvord Desert (in the rain shadow of Steens Mountain) in eastern Oregon, get as little as 5 inches (130 mm). [2] [3]
December is traditionally Oregon’s wettest month, but even by those standards, the start to the month has been wet. Salem received 4.98 inches of rain while Eugene had 4.51 inches from Dec. 1 to ...
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Coastline of Brookings as seen from U.S. Highway 101. Brookings is located along the southern Oregon coast at the mouth of the Chetco River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.94 square miles (10.20 km 2), of which 3.87 square miles (10.02 km 2) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km 2) is water. [17]
The wettest “rain year” in Harbor was from July 1937 to June 1938 with 107.62 inches (2,733.5 mm) and the driest from July 1976 to June 1977 with 40.30 inches (1,023.6 mm), although as much as 123.90 inches (3,147.1 mm) fell during calendar year 1996. The most rainfall in one month was 36.90 inches (937.3 mm) in December 1996.
The higher rainfall totals come from longer-term NOAA forecasts across seven days. Bryant said Oregon said totals as high as 4 to 5 in the valley and 10 to 15 in the mountains was possible, but ...
Over the contiguous United States, total annual precipitation increased at an average rate of 6.1 percent per century since 1900, with the greatest increases within the East North Central climate region (11.6 percent per century) and the South (11.1 percent). Hawaii was the only region to show a decrease (−9.25 percent). [89]
With only 0.22 of an inch of rain from a single storm so far this month and 0.26 of an inch of rain for November so far compared to a historical average of a little over 2 inches for all of the ...