Not everywhere. On the western slopes of places like the santa cruz mountains, we mostly get a thermal sea breeze that keeps things cool during summer (our so

Not everywhere. On the western slopes of places like the santa cruz mountains, we mostly get a thermal sea breeze that keeps things cool during summer (our so called "natural air conditioner"). This also does a very good job of keeping the air clean, as we ocean air from the NW. You just have to be sufficiently hot inland to generate such a breeze, and things are generally stable. We do of course get some smokey days when the prevailing wind is offshore, and had more smoke during the CZU fires, which were right here - but otherwise pretty good.