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Eastern Washington has a lot of hot desert
by cactusfrog 6mo ago
Eastern Washington has a lot of hot desert
- pram 6mo agoWashington indeed has a giant desert but it's in the middle fwiw, the SERE school is in Spokane
- Manuel_D 6mo agoSpokane is in the Eastern arid region of the state.
- pram 6mo agoWhat an absolutely pointless thing to get pedantic about. Put "spokane washington" into Google images and tell me if that looks like a desert to you.
- hedgehog 6mo agoThey're also wrong. The geographic center (around Ellensburg or so) is also in what is known as Eastern WA (east of the Cascades).
- cbron 6mo agoSpokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.
- Manuel_D 6mo agohttps://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6 This is the view outside of Fairchild AFB, which runs the training course in question. Wikipedia reports that Spokane has a Mediterranean climate, as does Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province where this F-15 is reported to have been shot down.
- justin66 6mo agoIt's sad how quickly this comment thread went from someone talking about their experience at SERE to... this.
- littlestymaar 6mo agoOn the contrary, as a European who only associates Washington State with the rainy Seatle I found the reality check rather enlightening.
- coffeebeqn 6mo agoWA has a crazy collection of microclimates. Ho oh rainforest, alpine at the various mountains, Yakima desert, mild and wet near Seattle, dry plains in the east of Cascades, etc.
- justin66 6mo agoAsperger’s spans the continents! It’s inspiring.
- OhioMan2943 6mo ago[flagged]
- cbron 6mo agoSpokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.