The Köppen classification Csb, warm-summer Mediterranean climate, is best known from coastal California, but it shows up in surprising places, including inland St. Maries, Idaho. Which small city on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, sitting in a rain shadow and receiving only about 16 inches of rain per year, is also classified Csb?

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Sequim. St. Maries in northern Idaho has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate under the Koppen system, coded Csb. Sequim, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, also sits in the same warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone, sometimes classed as oceanic because of its cooler temperatures.