2006-7 is a great example of an active Niño fall, albeit with weak ENSO. Wettest Nov on record with an overperforming arctic blast, followed by the defining windstorm of my generation. Seeing as we're due for another big blowdown, we might be in for an interesting 2026-27 wet season as we welcome El Niño again. Then of course you have the out of season August 2015 wind event, which was kind of a blowdown in and of itself, though mainly due to the still leafed foliage rather than the magnitude of the winds themselves, even though it did stack fairly highly against mean windstorm climo with a 60 burger and a HWW for KSEA

Yeah, first half of May was almost totally dry that year. Second half almost totally the opposite. There was even lower elevation snow (below 2000') on 5/22/2013 with that monster deformation zone.

Yeah, probably do the obligatory transient June trough for one last hurrah before we embark on our 90+ day hell fire journey. Like I said, I'm putting my dreams into the tail end of the season. Niños tend to be front loaded, so the late summer through early winter period often isn't bad and is a bit more dynamic. Which would be a nice change of pace.

I remember on midnight June 1 it was 39F here!