Low at SEA this morning was 51 (with no wind) Low at PDX was 31 You don't see that very often. A testament to the power of warm air advection. PDX being so far removed from the baroclinic band escaped it almost entirely and is now plunging into some measure of inversiony goodness the rest of the week.

Quite a few foothill 70 sliders starting to strike.

Yep, January 1981 is still the warmest on record in Fairbanks and torched a ross the Yukon as well. Very different start to this month up there with Fairbanks still running a -20 departure thus far after today.

Happy to see a fantasy map like this even if it's unlikely to pan out, LOL. Better than the literal nothing it has been showing for weeks now.

Feels like this winter has actually been following 1980-81’s script pretty closely from a big picture perspective.