That moisture plume has been parked over western WA since Monday and it's not going to budge until Friday. Same thing happened last week except in was colder. Just crazy persistence. Usually it wavers around. Southern OR and northern CA will burn all summer and inundate us with smoke despite our endless rain this month.

-5/-38 at Fairbanks today. They may have their coldest March on record…

Burns Oregon set their all time March high today after a low of 24.

"New normal" is literally the term that has been thrown around unironically. It's a real thing that has really been said in this context, not a strawman.

Since 1950, we've never had a Moderate+ El Nino later in the year when the March SOI was >+2.1 (9 examples) Through March 19, the 30-day SOI average is +12.6, March so far being +14.