Soon 95% of the lower-48 will be joining them. The pattern being modeled for the 2nd half of June is an unmitigated disaster.
All tropical forcing analog pools with homogeneous dAAMt are nationwide blowtorches now. We’ve diverged from all the cooler years in that regard. And this is just a taste of what’s to come when boreal summer teleconnections mature in July/August.
Alaska has actually been one of the cooler places on the planet so far in 2024.
Weird for a strong Nino, but probably related to the f'ed up North Central Pacific pattern with that atomic warm pool out there.