I'm not sure how you tell raccoons from cephalopods, there. Here's a good place to start, though.
Some other appearances of the raccoon and cephalopod neighbours: [link] [link] [link]
I'm thinking that people's skin reactions haven't necessarily kept pace with the last 500 years of migration patterns. I seem to recall reading that Caucasian Australians had some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, because a bunch of people whose skin was fine for, say, Dublin, found themselves in a much sunnier environment.
This is true. It also means that we're world leaders in treating skin cancers, IIRC.
New York and Madrid being the same is what always surprises me.
It's the Gulf Stream that makes the difference in climate. Europe's Atlantic coast gets Caribbean weather ported to it via ocean current. (One of the reasons global warming is better described as climate change - it has the potential to disrupt the Gulf Stream, which would be pretty devastating for Europe's climate.)