Best years of retrogression?

[WeatherArchive]

What are your top picks of years that had decent or excellent retrogression patterns. I'm still trying to figure out what it means and would like a list so I can compare on places with images like http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/archives/archives.phpto give me a good idea.

[Jesse]

I have a few, but most of those years the ridge blocked anything from the north coming in.

[Deweydog]

What are your top picks of years that had decent or excellent retrogression patterns. I'm still trying to figure out what it means and would like a list so I can compare on places with images like http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/archives/archives.phpto give me a good idea.

Probably 2/3 or so of our coldest patterns over the last several decades are the result of strong retrogression. Look at those.

[snow_wizard]

No doubt the winter of 1984-85 is the king in the recent past.  I remember extreme cold retrograding all the way from Europe to the Eastern US and then finally the PNW.  The blocking was epic that winter.

[WeatherArchive]

Portland only shows 0.06 of rain for January 1985. Is that right? https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPDX/1985/1/3/MonthlyHistory.html?req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=

[BLI snowman]

Portland only shows 0.06 of rain for January 1985. Is that right? https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPDX/1985/1/3/MonthlyHistory.html?req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=

 

Yes, it was a record midwinter dry spell.