If you want a BLI snowman hand-picked cherry, here's one: OLM didn't see a single 70+ day from 6/3-6/10, a feat that hadn't happened since the great year of our lord 2012.

The ensemble flirts with some near seasonal stuff as get into week 3. If you’re into ensembles

That's literally the last 7 days available. I didn't "pick" anything. Someone said it was a few barely below normal days. Seems that regional maps of the last 30 days and 7 days are relevant.

Thermal runaway is a myth. That is all a forced pattern response. Tropical forcing isn’t reminiscent of 2015 (yet) nor will the pattern be for the foreseeable future. But as we discussed a couple weeks ago, it is likely the pattern will trend warmer later in June into July in response to *sub*seasonal variability in tropical convection (basically the combination of BSISO progression and onset of E-Hem monsoonal forcing). But don’t make the same mistake everyone else does in reading too much into model guidance attempting to resolve sub-seasonal variability in the extended range. Tl;dr I don’t see any extreme heat signals for the PNW at this time. Apologies in advance to the forum heat misers.

*Picks the coldest slightly below average week* that will get dwarfed by the upcoming heat waves