But while online hotel ratings services such as TripAdvisor are notoriously inconsistent, you can usually at least determine which places will be clean and safe and free of freighttrains loudly rumbling by at 2 AM.
La Niña, the cold variant, typically drives a relentless freighttrain of bad winter storms that hit the Pacific Northwest and then rumble east across the northern states, while hot, dry summertime spells settle in the West.