Well yeah many parts of the country get too cold in the winter. BUT, over here more people definitely die from heat.

I remember that year well. We were celebrating my dads birthday outside on the 1st...and we had a great round of thunderstorms. Maybe we'll repeat Sunday or Monday?!

Nice Anal log!

This is interesting food for thought. I’ve been having these mental “twinges” telling me that the climatic environment is changing in some surprising way. This article says it far better than I could. Give it a test drive https://gizmodo.com/this-growing-el-nino-could-irreversibly-alter-earths-climate-experts-warn-2000751194

From the NWS... In fact, there is around a 70-90% chance that temperatures exceed 90 degrees across parts of the Portland/Vancouver metro. If PDX reaches 90 degrees on Sunday (May 3rd), it would be the second earliest 90 degree temp of the season at the airport (the earliest recorded 90F at KPDX was April 30, 1998).