Except those projections of record smashing number of CDDs for the conus didn't pan out. The LR models have been running too warm overall, consistently. That's just fact.
I was born in San Diego. We moved to Oregon when I was 5, but I remember living there a little. My mother lived in San Diego from 1962-1989, my grandmother lived there until her death at 97 in 2021, and my sister lives just north of the city. It's a beautiful city and much much nicer than LA. It has however, experienced significant decline in the past decade. I was shocked by the number of homeless people when I was there recently, nothing compared to LA or Portland, but Balboa Park had several encampments, I had NEVER seen that before.