Is all of Oregon cloudy and rainy ? (Portland, Eugene: camp, beach)

[Mclaurin]

It's the Pacific NW, of course it's cloudy and it rains. Why do people ask this all the time? Just look at the weather records for goodness sake. Hello.

[karlsch]

Originally Posted by Mclaurin

It's the Pacific NW, of course it's cloudy and it rains. Why do people ask this all the time? ..........

If you would read the answers to the questions you would learn that most of the PNW is not cloudy and rainy much of the time.

Originally Posted by Mclaurin

......... Just look at the weather records for goodness sake. Hello.

You would also learn this by looking at the weather records.

[JasonF]

I think people who aren't from here have a picture of the PacNW as being the climate west of the cascades - gloomy and rainy. I have no idea what the people who actually live here are thinking - have they never been east of the cascades? It's like traveling to an entirely different planet in the span of about thirty minutes.

[Larry Caldwell]

Most of the people live in the Pacific North Wet, from the coast to the crest of the Cascades and north of Cottage Grove. Thanks to the Missoula Floods, that's where all the topsoil is. It washed in from the Palouse 10,000 years ago.

[Lunar Delta]

Originally Posted by Larry Caldwell

Most of the people live in the Pacific North Wet

Freudian slip?

[Larry Caldwell]

Originally Posted by Lunar Delta

Freudian slip?

Standing joke.

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by Lunar Delta

Freudian slip?

Old joke, but still amusing.

[Smiled]

Brookings. If you don't need to earn money. 76 the other day.

[ExNooYawk]

We have no fewer than three (3) neighbors who moved from the coast to Ashland, independently of each other. They all said they just couldn't take the long, wet winters. Ashland, and the Medford area, have lots of sunny days. If not, I wouldn't be here as I can't take a lot of clouds and rain. I wish the coastal weather was a bit more amenable but it isn't. Many people absolutely love the coastal weather, though, so it really is a matter of choice.

[SachetSachet]

Can someone further speak of the Inversions of the Medford area? I cannot get reliable information from searching even the weather records, as the records do not speak of what it actually feels like and if it is as bad as the historical record makes it seem. When we lived near Portland, I am sad to say, we paid no attention to Southern Oregon and these inversions!