Hopefully we don’t see anybody do anything silly and have people hurt or worse from carbon monoxide. It usually seems like we see a few with these really prolonged widespread outages.

With the big wind storm we had in December 2018 here, it was 7 to 10 days for a lot of the small outages on side streets to get repaired. I think a lot of people got generators for Christmas that year.

Models initially converging toward a Midwest based cold wave. Still time to keep it west with a stronger block.

Is there any reason to be concerned that this winter could be a 2020/21 repeat in the PNW? I remember that was a classic Nina/+QBO but the PV went super strong and as a result, the winter mostly failed apart from the brief cold snap in February, which was a result of of the late January SSW event.

I had the anemometer up occasionally feeding data here in Black Diamond after the power went out on a battery bank and we were sitting at 40 mile an hour sustained winds when we got the gusts at least to 60. The damage is pretty crazy, neighbor had a tree come down right in the middle of his truck