This is even a lot for me. I’m just staying quiet, grinding in the lab, and thanking the LORD everyday for our blessings!

Winter is here!

Not sure why you keep saying that, only 1958 and 1967 rank highly among pre-1970 summers there. Please try fact checking yourself. And 2025 was the 8th warmest JJA on record at OLM, the 7th warmest at PDX, the 5th warmest at SLE, and the 4th warmest at EUG. It obviously got more impressive the further south you went, but it was a super warm summer by any stretch and warmer than all but three of OLM's pre-2013 summers (1958, 1967, 2004). I also include September because it illustrates my point that 2025 was yet another top tier warm season stretch for our region by any remotely reasonable definition. Obviously having a very warm September enhances that perception for us, especially when it's tagged onto an already very warm JJA. I think it would be really unreasonable to not acknowledge that. OLM list here below: And here are EUG's 15 warmest in case you're interested (which it would appear you're not since you never address their numbers which generally pace very similarly to PDX's). 3 of their 4 warmest summers have occurred since 2021. You can try to throw out trivial details to invalidate, deflect, downplay, whatever. But we have this same conversation every year and every year it gets a little emptier to try to diminish what those of us in the region have actually experienced in the last decade and change. It's a dramatically different warm season climate. Even a "favored" more rural and maritime spot like OLM has already seen over 2 degrees of summer warming since 2012, after seeing 0.7 degrees of warming in the 7 decades prior to that. That's a staggering rate of change.

You’re just figuring it out now? Haven’t you been here for years