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Old 03-12-2016, 12:39 AM
 
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The central valley is officially named The Great Central Valley. It is dividend into the Sacramento Valley and the San Joaquin Valley. The two valleys are divided by the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where the Sacramento River flowing south meets with the San Joaquin River which flows north.

The two valleys are actually in two different climate zones which can be easily characterized by average amount of rainfall per year.

Sacramento Valley - Just below the foothills of the Klamath and Cascade Mountain Ranges just north of Redding all the way south down to the southern border of Sacramento County.
From north to south

Redding - 35 inches
Chico - 27 inches
Yuba City - 22 inches
Rocklin-Roseville - 25 inches
Sacramento - 21 inches


San Joaquin Valley - From the border of Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, south all the way down to the Transverse Range mountains (Tehachapi Mountains) just south of Bakersfield.

Stockton - 18 inches
Modesto - 13 inches
Fresno - 11 inches
Visalia - 11 inches
Bakersfield - 7 inches

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Old 03-18-2016, 12:22 PM
 
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This is a bad pic but the best one I could take while driving. It's by Madera Ranchos.
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Old 03-21-2016, 02:21 PM
 
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Here are a couple more photos to help reminds folks from the Bay Area and Southern California how horrible the scenery is in the Central Valley. Viewing these images will give them something to do with their smart phones while sitting in traffic. They can think about how lucky they are that they don't have to be stuck in the Central Valley and look at the horrible scenery.


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Old 03-23-2016, 05:15 PM
 
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yeah, its really unfortunate that people from Bay Area and SoCal just ignore the Central Valley. can you imagine, commuters from both areas try to drive as fast as they can so they drive at night to avoid all those slumbering trucks and miss the beauty of Central Valley
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Old 03-23-2016, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Formerly Pleasanton Ca, now in Marietta Ga
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The central valley doesn't look nice and green like that with a few wildflowers for more than a few months out of each year. Cheating with photoshop filters to make the pictures look radically different than what people see with the naked eye just makes me wonder if you don't also think it's very nice either to a point you tried to deceive everyone with manipulated photos. Why not post the real as captured images?
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Old 03-24-2016, 01:56 AM
 
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The place where I live it's usually green during the spring and it used to be more green through out the year before we started having that water problem.
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Old 03-24-2016, 10:12 AM
 
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The central valley doesn't look nice and green like that with a few wildflowers for more than a few months out of each year. Cheating with photoshop filters to make the pictures look radically different than what people see with the naked eye just makes me wonder if you don't also think it's very nice either to a point you tried to deceive everyone with manipulated photos. Why not post the real as captured images?
I think they were taken during spring when there is sporadic rain. otherwise they should have been yellow the rest of the year, which I think is more beautiful, colorwise
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Old 03-24-2016, 11:57 AM
 
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The central valley doesn't look nice and green like that with a few wildflowers for more than a few months out of each year. Cheating with photoshop filters to make the pictures look radically different than what people see with the naked eye just makes me wonder if you don't also think it's very nice either to a point you tried to deceive everyone with manipulated photos. Why not post the real as captured images?
Sure the hills and dales turn brown in the summer, but they do all over the state including Southern California and the Bay Area. I assure you there is no excessive photoshop in the images I've posted. I don't even use photoshop or lightroom. Just a pretty basic editing software. This is acually what the Central Valley looks like.
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Old 03-24-2016, 02:03 PM
 
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Sure the hills and dales turn brown in the summer, but they do all over the state including Southern California and the Bay Area. I assure you there is no excessive photoshop in the images I've posted. I don't even use photoshop or lightroom. Just a pretty basic editing software. This is acually what the Central Valley looks like.
Keep doing what u are doing we enjoy the photos! 3/4's of California's Central Valley is greener than anywhere in Southern California.
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Old 03-24-2016, 02:18 PM
 
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Keep doing what u are doing we enjoy the photos! 3/4's of California's Central Valley is greener than anywhere in Southern California.
Thanks
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