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Yeah, we live in the foothills of the Northern Cascades...we're about 2500' elevation. We have a 5,000' or mountains all around us. Our summers are usually HOT, HOT and DRY, DRY!
Sometimes, we have 90+ degree heat in May--sometimes snow in mid-June. For the most part, summer is 95+ degree heat for weeks on end. The first frost is usually mid to late September with snow that sticks & stays until April or so by Halloween every year. There has been one exception since I've lived here (I moved here in 2005) and that was a few years ago, it did not snow until December 11th and we didn't get much snow the rest of the winter...but we did have record lows in the -20s or so for more than 2 straight weeks (too cold to snow). I lost 11 birds that winter. Now that my coop is insulated/heated I feel better about cold..but now I'm worried about the first summer in my new coop....I moved the largest/fluffiest birds to the northern pens where the coop itself will shade them most of the day...so we'll see...oh and I planted lots of shade trees around it, too....fast-growing ones.
Yeah, we live in the foothills of the Northern Cascades...we're about 2500' elevation. We have a 5,000' or mountains all around us. Our summers are usually HOT, HOT and DRY, DRY!
