Yet still easily less total posts whining about this event than there was during our seasonably cool mid June trough a couple weeks back.
Hard to compete with posters who regularly make 500+ posts a week.
On a more macro level , us being located in something of a transitional mid-latitude climate zone probably has something to do with it. Stuck almost evenly in between the influence of the North Pacific and Four Corners highs in the summer, and shortly before the transition from Mediterranean to the more oceanic climate of northern BC and southern AK. So we see kind of a tug-of-war between the two.
Relatively speaking, we're pretty dang close to some extremely heat friendly environs just to our south and east in northern CA and the Columbia Basin. It stands to reason that as those zones shift bit by bit and hotter and hotter airmasses infiltrate the westside, we'll find ourselves capable of some big exponential jumps in our capacity for heat as we see more characteristics get exported from the adjacent climate subregions.