Yeah things are really getting fired up over the cascades.

Spitting drops here and there. A midwest consolation prize

The crest is the best! Big spring boomers in the cascades

I remember that event. That afternoon involved driving down mountain access roads in a hurry just prior to the first strikes after shutting down anything remotely electronic on the ridgeline.

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.