Those big dogs are purely a roll of the dice, such that they happen in warm winters as well as cold winters. They’re never promised.

You are. Maybe you aren't aware of which inversion I'm talking about... The inversion I'm referring to isn't the Puget Valley nocturnal inversion that fills the entire Puget Sound region. I'm referring to a very localized hyper-decoupled inversion that forms in the Meadowbrook Valley of my immediate neighborhood. It regularly runs 4-10F colder than anywhere else within 10 miles and only exists in a valley a hundred feet deep and a mile long. During east wind downsloping events in the cold season I've walked up from a deep frost at the bottom near Thornton creek and up into a 55F breeze just up the hill. Many times it's so shallow that my house, which sits on the northern rim just outside of the immediate valley, sits above the local inversion, with fog just 500' to my south. When fog pushes in from the surrounding environment overhead and all the neighborhoods surrounding, the strong local valley inversion can be completely scoured away. I know this is true because I've gone on walks hundreds of times at night.

42/34 here 36 now though. Might be the low once the fog sets in soon. Anyone seeing Aurora this evening?

Thanks. Not expecting too much. Hoping to squeeze out an inch or two. I’m literally 5-10 miles too far north. Close those.