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Originally Posted by tech12
Cool pictures, count me in as another person who didn't expect palms in Canada.
Vancouver stands in for everywhere, not just SF. It's because of incentives for film making...it's cheaper to film in Vancouver than SF, or many other places in the US.
As far as climate goes, SF itself is not that similar to Vancouver itself. SF has a Mediterranean climate (the winters are typically wet, and the summers typically completely dry), whereas Vancouver has a oceanic/marine climate, with year-round rain. Vancouver gets nearly three times as much rain per year compared to SF (62 inches vs. 24 inches), it gets snow, whereas SF does not, it has more cloud cover and fewer sunshine hours per year than SF, and SF has higher average high and low temperatures, as well as higher record highs and higher record lows.
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While what you said about San Fran is true, in that it is obviously milder and drier than Vancouver, Vancouver does indeed also have a dry sunny season, which is usually the start of June to the end of September. For example, in the last 50 days we have only received 6mm of rain (0.24 inches)
Victoria, on the other hand, it much drier and sunnier than Vancouver and is often considered the northernmost Mediterranean climate in the world.
Downtown Victoria receives 23.9 inches of precipitation a year, compared to San Frans 23.63, so essentially identical. And the vast majority of this rain falls in the late fall, winter, and early spring. Victoria also receives considerably less snow than Vancouver.
Victoria lies in a rain-shadow from the Olympic and Vancouver Island Mountains, along with Nanaimo and the Gulf Islands. Hence Arbutus and Garry Oak are common in this area.
PS - Thanks for liking the pictures!