If you live along the coast from about Santa Barbara on north sunny days this summer are a really big deal. Where I live nearer the SF Bay area a sunny day is pretty rare this summer since about April or so.
However, the good side of this is that the heat inland is drawing so much moisture off the ocean that I wake up literally every morning to a wet deck in my back yard. In fact it even got wet just after dark from mist and drizzle by the time it got dark too which is unusual this summer.
The redwoods grow partly because of the cloudy (high fog) late spring and summers that we call locally (The June Glooms). Even though this because of global climate change often lasts now from April until late August or even September. However, it also reduces fires because the foliage(redwoods, ferns, pine and oak trees) stay green from the moisture off the ocean now. But, if you go inland about 10 to 20 miles it begins to get very dry so by 50 miles from the ocean is where fires now can easily start from the dryness and drought.
Basically right along the coast the drought isn't affecting the plants because of the daily moisture off the ocean from at least Santa Barbara north all the way likely into Canada. But, this band is narrow like I said from only 10 to 20 miles inland from the coast at most where the weather is cool and nice here in California. This makes much of coastal California very expensive to own now.
This means that plants and trees where I live along the coast are happy and very green. Even these prehistoric plants that pop apart (not sure what they are called) that are usually dead now until next season
are still alive now and doing great and 3 feet high. Here are some of the prehistoric plants like Ferns and others that grow here along the northern coasts of California:
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