You really seem to be poo pooing the impressive number of cold troughs we have been seeing the past few months. We have had a huge number of below normal days in spite of coming out of a major Nino. I think this year is a huge win so far in the temperature department.
I prefer my below normal temps with some nice days. We had an amazing example of that last week after the rain.
Low clouds from earlier have evaporated around Puget Sound now and mid level clouds have pushed east. Nice when timing works out so well on a summer weekend. At one point a couple days ago the ECMWF showed low clouds all day for all of the western lowlands today.