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Oregon has sweltering heat and bitter cold?
by iancmceachern 3y ago
Oregon has sweltering heat and bitter cold?
- dharmab 3y agoOregon is amazing, it's got deserts, beaches, mountains (including ski areas), forests, volcanic areas...
- redleggedfrog 3y agoWell said. I live in Ashland, OR, and we get 100+ in the summer and pretty darn cold and snowy in the winter.
- loeg 3y agoHeat, yes.
- 01100011 3y agoPortland has hit over 110F in the last few years. It's also a city with nasty ice storms. Was there last year driving through and it was over 90F at 11:00p.m.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI live in Oregon, and a couple years back it was 47C here at my house. The year before that, we had an ice storm that covered everything with 1.5 inches of ice and knocked down a half dozen poles within a quarter mile of my house, and countless trees. So... yes? Edit: Ha, those two events were actually the same year.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI've lived in places (Tracy, CA, Sacramento, Ca) where it's over 120 for 2 weeks straight in the summer, every summer. Not just that one time. I've also lived in places (New York, Colorado) where storms like that knocking out critical infrastructure is again, a yearly occurrence. It's true, Oregon has way more extreme temperatures than I personally thought before this interaction, but it's still milder than many other places in the country I suppose.
- irrational 3y agoYes? We had the unfortunate experience of moving houses during a week when temperatures hit 115 degrees (though our car claimed it was 119).
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoDepending on where you live, yes. Oregon is more than just Portland, but even Portland summers reach the 90s on a regular basis, and we've gone over 100 degrees several times in the summer. Winter usually hovers around 30-40 degrees, but sometimes dips to the 20s, and we've definitely had 10-20 degree cold snaps. Go outside of Portland, and you'll easily find deserts that reach 100+ degrees on a regular basis, and highlands that go below zero.