Lake County has average temperatures ranging from the low 30's in the winter to the high 90's to low 100's in the summer. An average humidity of 50% in the winter and 30% in the summer which means virtually none of that famous California fog.
They are lever locks, with between 6 and 12 levers. They are double bitted and asymmetric, so the lock essentially has two different sets of levers. In addition, they are mostly quadruple throw, so you need to pass 4 sets of levers. The bolt work has 2 or 4 hardened steel circular bolts, providing good saw resistance.
Rekeying a lock is replacing the old lock pins with new lock pins. Locks are usually re keyed to build master-key systems, make a set of locks share a common key, or to eliminate compromised keys. Sometimes worn pins are replaced with new pins if the old pins become too short to reach the shear-line. The shear-line is the thin line shared by the plug and it's cylindrical housing.