I looked out this morning and the deck was wet and it was 57 degrees out with high fog and the accompanying drizzles

 It's always good during the summer if it is wet outside because it is much less likely to ever start a fire on the coast here when it is drizzling from the fog overhead. So, the fog isn't on the ground where it is dangerous to drive and just looks more like a cloudy day more than anything else.

Most days lately the fog burns off around noon but even today the high is only supposed to be 61 degrees even if the sun actually does come out. A lot of people like the cooler weather during the summer who live here but having grown up in Los Angeles I sort of miss all the sunny days even though it was always hot and smoggy growing up and the air then hurt your lungs often to breathe. But, now there are catalytic converters on the cars and trucks and so you can actually see the mountains there most days of the summer now from almost anywhere in Los Angeles County.

I think a lot of people don't realize that there are 8000 to 9000 foot mountains right next to Los Angeles which is why we had the smog problem in the 1950s and 1960s to begin with because it kept the air in Los Angeles a lot and wouldn't let it move inland on the breeze usually coming into shore from the sea.

The Santa Anas are when the deserts blow out into the ocean when some of the worst fires take place in Southern California. Our house or apartment never burned down but many people I know in Glendale in Junior High and high School had their nice houses usually on the hills around there burn down then in the 1950s and 1960s while I was there Growing up in Glendale, California then.