Looks great for 1500ft+

February/March 2017 was the wettest on record at SLE by a fairly large margin. Maximum 2-Month Total Precipitation for SALEM AP (MCNARY FIELD), OR Rank, Value, EndingDate, MissingDays 1, 21.10, 2017-03-31, 0 2, 19.13, 1983-03-31, 0 3, 19.01, 1961-03-31, 0 4, 18.51, 1904-03-31, 0 5, 17.60, 1940-03-31, 0 6, 16.46, 1999-03-31, 0 7, 16.39, 1916-03-31, 0 8, 16.09, 1996-03-31, 0 9, 16.02, 1938-03-31, 0 10, 15.37, 1949-03-31, 0 Period of record: 1892-12-01 to 2024-12-25

I really wish I would have been up here for the 2007/8-2010/11 stretch. Would have been 3 amazing years.

It's interesting how so many people I know think that we are higher in the mountains that we actually are. We are only at 1200 feet, but the mountains around us happen to be the perfect shape to trap cold air.

CDAS has a cool bias in the tropics. SSTAs are not that low in reality. MEI and ONI currently in niña territory doesn’t mean this should be treated like a *canonical* niña winter in the extratropics. There are other emergent subseasonal elements that have been projecting on the extratropical waveguide, and are actually being enhanced by the weak -ENSO low frequency state. This doesn’t mean the winter will be a dud (I’m still bullish that it won’t be) however that also doesn’t mean it should be treated like a canonical niña. I don’t understand why you are so insistent on this.