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Surprisingly deep article. A little known fact is that the coastal forests exhale fog. You can watch them breath out drifts of cloudstuff at the right time of
by carapace 4y ago
Surprisingly deep article.
A little known fact is that the coastal forests exhale fog. You can watch them breath out drifts of cloudstuff at the right time of day and weather conditions.
They are releasing moisture, but also microscopic pollen that act as the nuclei of fog/cloud droplets and actually cause condensation.
The California Coastal Commission is more important than you might realize. Keeping the coastal forest intact and operational effectively "air-conditions" the whole state to the Sierras. The Central Valley would be an oven without the coastal forests.
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoYes. Many of my favorite places in the PNW (so far) are the coastal forests and beaches in Mendocino County, around Eureka. A similar phenomenon can also be observed in the forests around Marin/Mill Valley. I always imagine Karl starting the trip from there.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoThe coastal forests in Northern California are beautiful. One geographical note: Eureka is in Humboldt County.
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoAh thank you! It’s been a while since I made the trip.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoGotcha! I only know because I very recently made the trip.
- thehappypm 4y agoI don’t think that’s considered the PNW, is it?
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoIt's a debated thing. I consider the PNW to be a shared biome, and that area feels much more like the Oregon coastline than the rest of California -- distinct from Sonoma County-ish on south.
- carapace 4y agoI feel I should amend that last paragraph: the coastal forest moderates the weather of the central and northern parts of the state. The southern part is an oven.