I went out to Yellowstone in October 2022…was pretty sunny and beautiful there. Was smoky before I left to go over there and nasty smoke persisted for another week or two once I was home. Sometimes we do get fairly persistent weak offshore flow and long bouts of smoke too.

Crater Lake snow depth has officially reached 0" as of May 7. Earliest ever, as it is a few days faster than 2015.

Western WA really doesn’t deal with that much smoke, 2020 of course was a big smoke event, but otherwise it’s generally small bouts of smoky days. Southern OR and east of the crest have had several years recently with 20-30 smoky days from late July through mid September.

I saved thousands from the sun before!

I found some composites for very strong El Niños. We'll see if this season falls into this.