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Subtropical areas sometimes forget how brutal weather Northern areas experience-like 100"snow in some Northern states cities and 10-15' snow in the mountains.  That coastal strip from Ensenada to Santa Barbara has some really nice weather (except for Santa Ana winds from desert in east) modified by the warm pacific current in winter and prevailing westerlies in summer-flying into LA and San Diego can be a weather surprise from other areas-like 91* in LA and San Diego in Jan.

As soon as get North of LA cold Pacific Current takes over-45* water temp in winter by time reach Puget Sound-hypothermia in 5 minutes. Bismarck ND has high or low below 0 for an average of 45 days. Mountaineering St Elias is cold also. In some coastal areas of SE Alaska,which rarely see the sun while receiving 100" plus precip they give people the day off on sunny days.

Surprised last weather source I provided indicated 15" precip in Ensenada-most sources say 11" and over 11" usually get some grasslands, and the mine sheltered by the coastal range probably receives just 10"(no grasslands there)-which is excellent for iron mining,especially as the rain comes mostly on just a few days. So there are very few days missed due to weather.