It's looking like a fairly exceptional May for snow around here. Denver just had our biggest May snowfall in over 20 years, and even the higher elevations average less than a foot of snow in May and many places are already well above that with more modeled to come. But I was more contrasting it with the terrible snow season we just went through. Also, you owe me an apology for insinuating I was manipulating stats earlier. I literally plugged in the question to Google AI: "was 2025 a bad fire season for the PNW". The 10 year average it generated seems relevant to the question of how it compared to other recent years.

Boom! Strikes in the lowlands by Maple Valley

Nice day. Only got up to 77F so not too bad. Hope the summer can be like this (lol yeah right)

Huge flash of lightning and thunder! Neighbor's dogs are barking.

A few inches of snow at the ski resorts in mid May is pretty typical stuff, no?