Pacific coastal rainforests receive over one hundred inches of rain yearly

Evidence

In those days the ancient rainforests spread from Northern California to southeastern Alaska in a band between the mountains and the sea. Here is where the fog drips. Here is where the moistureladen air from the Pacific rises against the mountains to produce upward of one hundred inches of rain a year, watering an ecosystem rivaled nowhere else on earth. The biggest trees in the world. Trees that were born before Columbus sailed. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1017