Looks like 2024 was the 2nd warmest on record at PDX. 5th warmest at SLE. EUG only the 8th warmest. The 1.7F departure for the year at EUG was the same as SLE, even though SLE had 4 months that were technically below average and EUG had none.

No...Say it's not so!

I’ve jumped ship. The only question is how long the arctic air will last. A blend of the CFS, GFS extended and new daily weekly euros shows us below freezing until at least the spring equinox.

Not to mention some decent setups are being shown within two weeks now.

If I calculate the exchange rate then that's similar to what wood is going for down here too. About $250 a cord USD. Fortunately we were blessed with the February 2021 ice storm which took down an insane amount of trees on my Dad's property, so I haven't had to buy wood since then. That is almost all gone now, should get us through this winter, but now he has about 15-20 dead Douglas Fir trees from our scorching summers, so that should get us through the next few winters.