Amazing weather continued:

 Santa Barbara of any other place on earth I have ever been appears to have the best year around weather. The smog from Los Angeles usually doesn't come up this far north so you don't deal with haze that much unless it is high or low fog. I think the smoke all over California is blocking the sun and reducing the likely much higher temperatures you could have all over the western states too. So, though if you are downwind of the fire it might get pretty bad, still the smoke from the fires is going to occlude the sun and thereby reduce temperatures wherever the smoke goes. In Canada they are really worried about this especially this year of the trees losing too much sun which allows them to make more oxygen. So, they worry about people in Canada dying from not enough oxygen this year especially because of this especially. However, the good thing about this might be reducing the temperatures all over because of occluding the sun.

It's sort of like Descartes saying: "There is nothing so bad that no good may come of it."

Santa Barbara reminds me of being in Hawaii without as much humidity in many ways. The flowers and Jacaranda trees and Birds of Paradise plants are beautiful here and north where I live is it at least 10 degrees colder than here year around so you rarely see birds of paradise and don't see jacaranda or Bouganvilla growing in the SF Bay area where it is about at least 10 degrees colder than here year around.

Where you can have 70s in any month of the year here in Santa Barbara this is much less true in the SF Bay area where normal temperatures could be around 60 degrees high in literally any day of the year from summer to winter. And the June glooms in SF Bay area over that whole area sometimes extends now for 6 months from April to September which can be pretty depressing too even though it keeps temperatures below about 75 or 80 most of those days too which can be nice because people don't buy Air Conditioners generally in the SF Bay area except fairly regionally where it gets warmer inland.