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RickCorey said:I keep the PNW forum in my Favorite Forums list, but not the "California Forum".

Warm weather? What's that? I'm Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Zone Csb (but lately summers have been much warmer than "b" suggests.

BTW, in Site Talk, we got onto the topic of climate regions and regional variations. I found a site "PlantMaps" that has interactive, infinitely zoomable maps. I love the feature that lets you turn on or off the coloring for different USDA Hardiness zones so that you can tell which one is yours even if the colors look very similar. I really like it!

"PlantMaps" has a whole TABLE of different maps, like Frost Dates, hardiness zones, heat zones, "EPA Ecoregions", and native trees and plants. You can scan around the state maps like WA or OR, or enter your ZIP code, and zoom down to your neighborhood if you're near a border.

http://www.plantmaps.com/inter...


These posts and links discuss global "Koppen" climate zones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K... . . . Wiki Intro
http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.... . . . details, paper, continental maps
http://www.physicalgeography.n...

http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.... . . . . USA Map
http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien....

http://garden.org/thread/view_...
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
http://garden.org/thread/view_...

Also, here is a site that lets you search or download a big text file listing the "Koppen Climate Zones" for every US County. When I look at that and see three very different zones just in Snohomish County, I realize that climate, not just weather, is very local!

US Koppen Zones listed by State and County:
http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien....

Outstanding, THANKS.............. ..... That first link is as 'accurate' as I've ever seen for my area ( and a few that I've lived in, as 'tests' ) Nobody seems to want to believe that I (we) lived in south central Oregon long enough to see it SNOW EVERY month of the yr ... That showed last frost average, July 11...First frost, August 11 .......... ( any questions on why I LOVE SW Oregon and Z8b? )