What causes Fort Bragg, CA to be sunnier than much of the CA coast? (climate, warm)

[Silent1Unknown15]

From my personal experiences driving around and living on the Norcal coast, Fort Bragg is unusual for the amount of sunshine hours on the California Coast. I'm trusting the weatherspark data could be wrong, but it lines up with how I felt the climate and the types of plants I could grow. Citydata seems to not let me post with the images, heres a link to the Fort Bragg weatherspark:

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/364/202...-United-States

Here are some other coastal cities in California; notice that many of them have the distinct June Gloom and passing rainy weather in the winter. Scroll down to the cloud cover chart you'll see they are more cloudy generally than Fort Bragg.

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/357/202...-United-States

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/1042/20...-United-States

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/1727/20...-United-States

What could cause this rare sunny hole? It's not that close to the yearly subtropical high and warm oceans that cause SoCal weather, it's nearby the redwood curtain and Lost Coast where it dumps rain, and the coast ranges should cause some orographic lift assuming the air is humid enough which it should if it rains a few hours north.

[Satellite_Anthem]

I thought the summer temps looked too warm for the California coast...then I saw this on the weatherspark page:

"2022 Weather History in Fort Bragg California, United States
The data for this report comes from the Ukiah Municipal Airport."

Aha! That explains it. Ukiah is about thirty miles inland, behind some of the coastal mountains, so it gets hotter there in the summer than Fort Bragg.

Not sure why weatherspark used Ukiah data. Maybe there's no official station in Fort Bragg? But Fort Bragg's wiki page has a climate entry with averages that look typical for coastal northern California.

[Silent1Unknown15]

Aha there it is! I didn't notice the data source, if it's Ukiah that makes a ton of sense.