Editing Tehachapi Mountains (section)

===Climate===
[[File:Muir Woods National Monument Road Trip (33983009688).jpg|thumb|Winter snowfall on the southwestern slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains]]
The range includes and is the boundary between the [[xeric]] Mojave Desert and Mediterranean [[climate zone]]s, and includes the [[subalpine zone]].  The majority of the range is in the Mediterranean climate zone, receiving precipitation in the winter similar to the neighboring Transverse Ranges in the [[Los Padres National Forest|Los Padres]] and [[Angeles National Forest]]s to the west and southwest. They create a [[rain shadow]] for the eastern foothills [[ecotone]] into the Mojave climate zone that typically receives only a few inches of precipitation a year, usually in winter.  Summer [[monsoon]] season can bring localized rains to the higher subalpine parts of the range.  The wettest slopes receive about 20–25 inches of precipitation a year, some in the form of snow.

The prevailing wind is northwesterly, funneling up the east–west [[canyons]] from the San Joaquin Valley into the [[valleys]], upper canyons, and passes of the Tehachapi range with regularity.  The [[Tehachapi Wind Resource Area]] exists due to this. To the northwest lies the [[San Joaquin Valley]] with its [[grassland]]s and oak savanna climbing the broad western slopes of the range.  The Tehachapis collect marine and valley moisture, which piles up into fog that blankets the windward sides of the range many weeks of the year.   The higher north-facing slopes are [[California mixed evergreen forest|mixed evergreen forest]], while the south-facing are [[California chaparral and woodlands|chaparral and woodlands]], typical of the relationship between the cooler moisture-retaining northern slopes and the exposed warmer and drier southern slopes. Canyons can have year-round [[surface water]] flow, even on southern slopes, from springs and [[orographic]] enhancements bringing extra precipitation and snow from passing storms.