This is so comically horrific I just had to post it. I'm not sure how big a deal it is because the AO has been pretty low as of late which means the PV is weak in the troposphere.

I knew we already had a Heatmiser.. Snomizers brother IIRC.

The only saving grace is despite all the warmth, the mountains have gotten remarkably little rain. Even the warm storms have been too muddled to develop into true Pineapple Expresses and just kind of limped inland with offshore flow usually keeping the Passes mostly snow.

This.

Yeah I was thinking that too. I think that was that same mid-November trough that may have produced a speckle of slop up there on the Canal. An event that is sure to live on in our minds for many years to come!