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Like scared there might be a marine layer that doesn’t burn off until 11 or so some days scared?

Just had some incredibly heavy rain move over. Picked up close to 1/2” in 5 minutes. 52 degrees currently. Ended up with a 59/49 spread here today. Partly to mostly cloudy and breezy with showers at times.

The Puget sound area and central Oregon are wildly different climates.

I’m even ok with 90+ as long as it comes in 3-4 day spurts or so. With buffers of marine layer days and highs in the 70s. Throw a cutoff low t-storm pattern in there followed up by some deep marine layer drizzle to keep the fire threat down. Dynamic summers can be fun and enjoyable. The 7-12 day spells of stagnant, smoky heat with even the lows barely getting below 65 for days on end are pretty awful though. But maybe we just need to learn to embrace them if they’re a new part of our climate.

So do I. Although I like said warmth and ridging broken up with marine layer days and maybe even some rain every 2-3 weeks. But even heatwaves can be fun as long as they aren’t June 2021, July 2022 or August 2023 repeats.

I do agree overall, but I’m still going to refer to the major recordkeeping station in my area. Don’t need someone chasing me around with and asterisk every time I mention a stat there without typing up a disclaimer And it’s not like last May was cold everywhere else. It was hot and dry regionally.

18z sure looked nice. Let’s hope the models flip back some. Worth noting the EPS hasn’t really been on board for some of the crazy ridging the GFS has been showing at times the last 24 hours. The 12z Euro was ridgier in the 6-10 day range than past runs, though.

Sounds like nitpicking to me.

We usually get a lot of sunbreaks in troughy periods this time of year. Pretty rare to get stronger than forecasted rainbreaks when we have a big ridge overhead though.

Looks like PDX is up to 60 after going one entire day without hitting it.

As usual, what is your point? It was still a hot and dry May, and now we’re looking at the possibility of another one.

We would have a solid head start on an all-time record warm May if the 12z GFS verified. Been awhile since our last one, almost a whole year!

Is she ever?

Shaky ensemble support, but it’s ridging so it’ll probably happen.

Looks like another win for the bourgeois.