We need a couple to track across SW WA as well. Generally you don't want mountain waves. Too much of a good thing for efficient delivery of cold air.

Well you already throttled me because well, you know why.... BS reason , may as well throttle others, fair is fair.

Sunset.

Letting the anger build…

I don't think we've ever had a temperature departure of +33F I stumbled upon it because Phoenix had the most 100F+ temps this year, breaking the record by 37 days. New records there in that regard were broken in the Summer of 1935, when it set a new record to that date. A +PNA pattern pattern carried that Winter in Dec-Jan, then February (which in all of the analogs switched to -PNA pretty abruptly) the record cold came forth. I think when Phoenix is hot in the Summer, the N. Pacific ridge had a tendency to stretch north the following Winter, into Alaska, at least if you separate the years by progression of new records set (it has to be progression otherwise all of the analogs would be recent). That year, 1935, broke its old record by 17 days. In the long run, warmth in the SW, US is a warm signal because the jet stream is lifting north, but shorter term, it could mean we have some cold bursts this Winter. Maybe. It's kind of a small data point.