How can you not be romantic about this… https://atmos.uw.edu/current-weather/satellite/

I think it has more to do with the fact that we have fairly mild winters and a significant portion of Cascade snow falls right around the freezing point. Stands to reason even a fairly modest shift upwards in winter average temps could lead to a lot more Cascade precip falling as rain instead of snow.

Something about that looks fishy

Yeah, that guy is gonna be fun to watch over the next few hours. Tillamook should be under the gun too for some impressive gusts https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46089

That buoy is down to 950mb and gusting to 74 mph