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Portland, Oregon has a marine climate. Southern Oregon is more Mediterranean, with hotter, dryer summers as the Coast Range gives way to the Siskiyous west of Cottage Grove. Immediately east of the Cascades is high desert, while SE Oregon along the Nevada border is just desert, with about 5" of rain a year.
French official geographs always state this is the exact border between Mediterranean and Atlantic climates in SW France; as I do cross that line on the highway several times each year, I can't help wonder what's Mediterranean (even extremely degraded Mediterranean) about the place. Sure there are cypress trees (but much less than in Tuscany albeit it's the same latitude) and a few skinny, long -suffering dwarf olive trees lost in the deciduous temperate vegetation. The main agricultural produce of that region by the way is corn, which is not specifically a mediterranean culture. Myself I would put the climatic border much further East (closer to the Mediterranean shore), and even there , it is quite extreme in the sense that is far from being a pure Mediterranean climate like further South along Spanish Costas.
Portland isn't Mediterranean. A Mediterranean climate is dry. Portland is literally a rainforest
You're probably referring to Mediterranean climates in California, characterised by very dry summers. But a true Mediterranean climate such as Naples, Southern Italy, is as wet as Portland overall and has a much more evenly distributed rainfall pattern (this means the dry season in Naples is shorter and less extreme compared to Portland). Therefore Portland can certainly be considered a Mediterranean climate, actually much more so than Southern California.
You're probably referring to Mediterranean climates in California, characterised by very dry summers. But a true Mediterranean climate such as Naples, Southern Italy, is as wet as Portland overall and has a much more evenly distributed rainfall pattern (this means the dry season in Naples is shorter and less extreme compared to Portland). Therefore Portland can certainly be considered a Mediterranean climate, actually much more so than Southern California.
Exactly! Not every Mediterranean Climate is like Southern California. Portland summers are dry enough to be classified as "Meditteranean", to me.
Still, Jerusalem is winning the thread I can't find anything like that
You're probably referring to Mediterranean climates in California, characterised by very dry summers. But a true Mediterranean climate such as Naples, Southern Italy, is as wet as Portland overall and has a much more evenly distributed rainfall pattern (this means the dry season in Naples is shorter and less extreme compared to Portland). Therefore Portland can certainly be considered a Mediterranean climate, actually much more so than Southern California.
Southern California is not a Mediterranean climate, it is a desert climate.
Southern California is not a Mediterranean climate, it is a desert climate.
Some areas get a lot of precipitation in the wet season, so, I won't call them "deserts"
But... yeah, they are extremely dry in the summer. Not like Jerusalem, though (it has the driest summers I know, hence, it's the most extreme for now, and it's winning the thread).
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same here in naurouze SW France
Myself I would put the climatic border much further East (closer to the Mediterranean shore), and even there , it is quite extreme in the sense that is far from being a pure Mediterranean climate like further South along Spanish Costas.
I can't find anything like that
