Imagine if that beast had set up after an arctic outbreak with the basin in the deep freezer! Oh what could have been Or imagine that beast had setup over the pacific shutting it down for a week+ and delivering rounds of arctic air clear down to Nor Cal!

591 would bring mid 90s to PDX in the summer

Yeah it's pretty clearly not an intentional troll account. Your analysis here is spot on. I would be willing to bet that he genuinely has no idea how ridiculous some of his posts are.

A 41/17 spread at PDX would be insane considering that we don't have much cold to begin with. FWIW the 18Z AIFS also gets PDX pretty cold, with mid 20's at its lowest there. Curious if tomorrows models will look any different, and how long this inversion sticks around for. 4-5 days looks like the consensus but I bet that changes.