Near +5 AO today. Before this year, we never had an October day above +4.
Here is how it rolls forward to December..
January is a +NAO/+AO composite
February
51/36 here today. Currently 48 and mostly clear but it's not going to freeze here tonight, clouds approaching rapidly. This is turning out to be one of the latest freezes for my 32 years of record keeping.
I’ll be excited if we get gusts over 40 mph. Yesterday I saw a couple small branches down and the highest gust at PDX was 28.
The weather here has been incredibly tame since early spring, other than the two thunderstorms, a bit of rain and the heatwaves. It’s almost comical at this point.