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Around The Vineyard
Impact of the 2020 Wildfires
on the Oregon Wine Industry
By: Becky Garrison
D V. Jones, the rent wildfires in Oregon and the western US.
r. Gregory
Evenstad Director
“This unprecedented and likely a once in genera-
of Wine Education and a tion event resulted from a very large high-pressure
professor and research area stretching from the desert SW to Alaska that
climatologist at Linfield brought extreme heat and very dry conditions to
University, describes in a the western US. The dome of high pressure pushed
telephone interview the the jet stream into northern Canada and forced cold
weather conditions leading air southward into the Rockies and the central US.
up to and causing the cur- This outflow of air brought strong winds from the
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