From Michael Synder on twitter. He missed 1941. "How rare are 100 degree days in Seattle? With the shot at a very hot day or 2 coming up this weekend let's take a look: In July of 1994, Seattle recorded its first 100 degree day in history. Then 15 years later, Seattle hit an incredible 103f (July) In June 2021 Seattle hit 100 for 3 consecutive days! Including back to back all-time records in (104f and 108f)"

Thanks for bringing up Forest Grove as well. Too bad there aren't more reliable long term stations out there. So based on what you said, we have five Portland metro stations with relatively long records (early 70s or further back) in the same location: PDX, downtown Portland, VUO, Battle Ground, and Forest Grove. Two exceeded their pre-2021 record in August 2023, and three fell several degrees short of it. Which supports the point I was making.

Forest Grove and Battle Ground are really the only suburban stations with a somewhat clean POR in the Portland metro that is comparable to PDX. The KGW downtown station only goes back to 1973 and the current Vancouver COOP station at the WSU research unit only goes back to 1966. There's also a Troutdale COOP station with records back to 1965 (not TTD). Of the two long-termers, Forest Grove hit 106 (pre-2021 record was 109) and Battle Ground hit 104 (pre-2021 record was 107). So both were indeed a smidge off, but it's also probably pretty fair to say that it was an event that was reasonably within pre-2021 record territory for the entire Portland metro. Certainly within a believable margin of error at least. And the 108 at VUO last year lends a lot of credence to the PDX number. VUO runs noticeably cooler than PDX most of the time.

like what I’m seeing on the radar. Looks like southeast Iowa under the gun for heavy rain and severe thunderstorms. Enhanced risk of severe includes my county now.

Stick to the facts. That's what I'm doing. You can call it an agenda until you're pink in the face, but you're the one showing an unwillingness to acknowledge statistical evidence. You made up your mind that PDX was not the outlier and I was just saying that to push an "agenda" before even looking at the facts.