Climate & Weather:
Weather varies significantly across Oregon, but
overall, winters are often cool and wet, with
summers dry and warm.
Mean temperatures average 38 degrees in January and
67 degrees in July. Cooler condition exist in the
east and southeast, while it's warmer in the
southwest.
About 50% of all precipitations falls in winter.
Amounts vary from 8 inches annually in the drier
plateau regions east of the Cascades, to as much as
200 inches in the higher elevation of the Coast
Range mountains.
Snow amounts approach 350 to 550 inches annually in
the Cascades.
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WEATHER AND TRAFFIC INFO
Firsts, Facts, Trivia:
In 1879, Cleveland became the first city to be
lighted by electricity. Cleveland also had the
first traffic light in 1914.
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FACTS
Featured Tourist Spots:
Columbus Zoo - The Columbus Zoo is
recognized as one of the finest animal education and
research facilities in the United States. The
Columbus Zoo currently covers over 400 acres
adjacent to O'Shaughnessy Dam in the greater
Columbus area.
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Oregon History:
About thirteen thousand years ago
the first native Americans had arrived in the
Northwest from Mongolia by way of Siberia and
Alaska. The Indian pictographs on canyon walls and
legends of the Northwest's earliest historic
accounts provide the story of how Oregon was shaped
by the ocean, volcanoes and rain. Many Oregon names
are derived from Indian tribal names, such as
Multnomah, Willamette, Siuslaw and Clackamas.
The native Americans were followed many centuries
later by Spanish and British mariners seeking the
fabled "great river of the west." Spanish and
English sailors are believed to have sighted the
Oregon coast in the 1500s and 1600s. It was an
American, however, Captain John Gray, who in 1792
discovered the great river and named it for his
ship, The Columbia. Captain Gray was one of
the first white men to enter Oregon. Capt. James
Cook, seeking the Northwest Passage, charted some of
the coastline in 1778.
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