Not good, looks like a cougar was spotted on the same North Bend trail that the was last seen. Hoping the stallion is found and brought back to its owner!
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/uh-oh-cougar-spotted-same-trail-missing-zebra-wandering-north-bend/6IG5ZWVUMRARNBCVYMMS334OAE/
Just because you haven’t had much troughing doesn’t mean we haven’t had our share of ridging too. It’s not always a perfectly inverse relationship, obviously. Especially as wavelengths change throughout the year.
As I’m sure you know, there are many ways you could keep a generally troughy pattern out there mid month without an amplified ridge sitting squarely over the I-5 corridor the whole time. The fact that it had to be one or the other is a false dilemma.