NorCal is in its usual bi-polar season of weather. We get a streak of rain then it changes from rain, to sunny as hell every day. I'll still take it over shoveling snow just to get the mail.
Incidentally, a friend of mine who's a verteran arborist said that the number of blights and invasive insects hitting trees the past two years is completely off the charts, we're too late to do anything about it (not that most states even try), and he estimates about 1/3 of the trees in the northeast will be dead in three years.