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The Olympic Peninsula is home to temperate rain forests, including the Hoh, Queets Rain Forest, and Quinault. Rain forest vegetation is concentrated primarily in the western part of the peninsula, as the interior mountains create a rain shadow effect in areas to the northeast, resulting in a much drier climate in those locales.
The rain shadow extends to the eastern Olympic Peninsula, Whidbey Island, parts of the San Juan Islands, and Victoria, British Columbia which receive between 18–24 in (460–610 mm) of precipitation each year. Seattle is also affected by the rain shadow, albeit to a much lesser effect. [12]
Access is via the 19-mile Deer Park Road, and the summit can be reached by walking the half-mile Rain Shadow Loop Trail which gains 170 feet of elevation from road's end. [5] The trail is so named because Blue Mountain lies within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains , receiving 50 inches of precipitation annually compared to more than 200 ...
The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest summit at 7,980 ft (2,432 m); however, the eastern slopes rise precipitously out of Puget Sound from sea level, and the western slopes are separated from the Pacific Ocean by ...
On June 27, 2021, Port Angeles set a new all-time record high of 97 °F (36 °C), breaking the city's previous all-time record high of 96 °F (36 °C). Port Angeles is in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, resulting in much lower precipitation (only 26.54 in [674 mm] per year) than locations to the west outside of the rain shadow.
As stated in the foundation document: [12] The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, a large wilderness park containing the finest sample of primeval forest of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of ...
Due to the Olympic rain shadow, the region is much drier than most of the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades. Climate data for Oak Harbor, Washington Month
Sequim Bay State Park is a public recreation area covering 92 acres (37 ha) on the shore of Sequim Bay, on the Puget Sound side of the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County, Washington.