I hear ya. Plenty of cool air poured into the CONUS over the past couple weeks, you were just a bit too far east and south with the pattern. Regarding the bolded part, I saw this on another forum, pretty interesting. Makes sense that parts of the mid latitudes have been seeing extreme torching at the same time. Per DMI, the daily mean temp in the Arctic N of 80N has still not reached 0C! As of today (6/27), it’s still barely <0C at -0.35C: Going all of the way back to 1958, the previous latest to first exceed 0C was a full week earlier, June 20th, and that was in 2013: So, even if it finally exceeds 0C tomorrow, that would still be a whopping 8 days later than the previous latest on record of June 20th!

It's getting thicker and thicker.

Past two days have been terrible. Still socked in and can't make my normal desert escape on a Monday.

Our temperature variability is minuscule in the summer, dude. Yes the anomalies are small. We don’t have the luxury of a cold Pacific Ocean immediately upstream to save us. As soon as the Canadian cold pool dissipates in June, there is no cool air source remaining to draw from, and most cold fronts either don’t make it here or end up being “dry fronts” warmed by solar heating by the time they arrive. PNW and Mid-Atlantic swap places in terms of variability during the warm season, PNW has huge temp swings, we don’t. Winter it’s the other way around.

We're about 10 miles south of Winthrop, so OK on this one and looks like they just threw a *** ton of resources at it right off the bat since it was blowing towards the town and they knocked it out pretty good. Fingers crossed.