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To paraphrase a certain Gopher State native from Januaries past: "60 degrees is never cruel!"

Locally here, May 2011 was historically cold while June was just merely chilly. June 2010 actually felt a lot colder than June 2011, though looking back there was only about a degree difference.

Check out May/June 1971. Seven record low maxes at SEA. And a couple of 59s in early July for good measure. What a time!

Speaking personally, I know I'm just that much more likely to do a 50 piece McNugget and large Peanut Butter Crunch McFlurry combo when I don't have a laser-eyed teenager there at the register to judge me.

Tim has had it so easy for so long.

Plenty of mid level clouds streaming in from the WNW over here. Has gotten noticeably darker in the last hour.

That's why they're installing kiosks in most of them. The days of the happy-go-lucky McDonald's cash register worker are almost over

Oh. Well hopefully that Nino-Costco magic strikes again with the strong Nina event this coming winter. Would hate to see something nasty like a Nino-Big Lots signature emerge.

Not really. It was never anything more than a very weak Nina to begin with, and the weather patterns remained remarkably consistent across the CONUS pretty much throughout so there was no discernible impact from any of the marginal SSTA warming in the equatorial Pacific. It will go down as a weak Nina cold season that for one reason or another had an unusually dominant grip on the weather patterns. Kind of the inverse of a year like 2004-05, which was only ever a very weak Nino but one which developed a solid death grip on the weather patterns nevertheless. It's cute that you're still so hung up on it, though.

The 2016-17 Nino is the stuff of legend. Amazing how we pulled that off.

12z runs look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it makes you feel any better, there hasn't been a major U.S. plane crash since 2009. An amazing testament to how safe air travel has become, almost down to a science. The bigger picture shows that even with the questionable recent record of certain companies, the safeguards are overwhelmingly doing their job.

Funny enough, the last few big snowpack years in CA were all *drumroll... Niñas! 2010-11, 2016-17, 2022-23. La Niña truly brings the nourishing juices of life to all. Particularly to the Mid Atlantic states, where it allows the newly-native flora to thrive as it works to further expedite the transfer of the humid subtropical climate/bioregion into your neck of the woods.

Rang in with a nice line of strong to severe thunderstorms on the 1st and never looked back.

The cool and wet May is looking like the real deal, Andrew. Big Nino to Nina flips tend to equate to stunningly beautiful Mays. 1988, 1998, 2010. We're bound to see blessings, and a whole heck of a lot of them. You've all been warned.