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oceanduciel t1_jd5vlun wrote

Reply to comment by Rich-Juice2517 in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

Just for that level of dryness to be present in that region. Since it’s a temperate rainforest and everything.

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youtocin t1_jd69t4z wrote

Look at a satellite map of Oregon. Most of the green is concentrated in the Cascadian range of the west. It's mostly desert as you go east.

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Rich-Juice2517 t1_jd5w6nj wrote

Ah yeah, the rainforest is only in the Olympic peninsula from what I've seen. It gets wet a lot there

Edit: to add we've been at like 80% of our regular water table and in a drought the last few years

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KittenPics t1_jd5zgm6 wrote

Yeah, that’s what everyone thinks, that it rains every day. I assure you, it does not.

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McRaige t1_jd7214w wrote

We do not get enough average annual rain in most parts of Oregon to be a temperate rainforest by about 10 inches. And even without that, the wooded, foresty areas that everyone thinks of when thinking of oregon are on the northwestern coastal areas. The rest of the state is varying states of grasslands and dessert, and while less poplated, is the larger portion of the state by far.

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