 In the next 100 years, the water is expected to surge as much as 9 feet, bringing into question the fate of the many million dollar homes settled right on the edge of the sea.Coastal California is heavily influenced by east-west distances to the cold California Current (dominated by it) and microclimates due to hills and coast ranges, having strong ecological effects, summer and winter temperatures other than occasional heat waves are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong Seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 miles away.Point Conception tends to divide the Coastal region by mid-summer into warmer (south and east) and cooler zones (north).