Northern California

English Proper noun northern California The northern half of the state of California, typically north of Monterey County and its distinct culture centered around the San Francisco Bay Area. en Norcal 30 April 2022 w:David Helvarg Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater https://web.archive.org/web/20250817193636/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/opinion/climate-change-california-kelp.html The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. en California, USA