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

This. Pretty much D**n near entire cities down here are out, the transmission lines just north of Lake Sawyer and my place were quiet. It's widespread right to the substations themselves here. The linemen out here are in force and working, they deserve all the hot cocoa this winter

That jives with it being a Mountain Wave event rather than typical gap event. North Bend and Monroe weren't hit very hard because the waves went over them and then slammed down in places like Issaquah, Bellevue, Snohomish and Lake Stevens

It's nice when Phil has a lot to add to the forum. It's been a while.