The long range indicates proper summer will end with a whimper. Still no telling if it will come back in early-mid Fall, though. I think we're due for a November 70 burger

The six month rule works really well here. Between February 21st and 28th, our shot at a top tier lowland snow and cold event drops off, spring becomes a bit more evident on a bright and sunny, and nautical twilight lingers past 7pm. Six months later, triple digits fall off of the forecasting outliers, the sunlight has a noticeably warmer shade with evening light stretching into 5pm.

You all can have lighting but keep that dry stuff away from me.

My .02 in predicting snowfall from an El Nino or SEN-- is don't even try. 65-66 in DSM is the least snowiest on record. 2009-10 was 3rd all time snowiest and only 3" shy of the all time record. Warmth in the N PLains is about all I would bet on.

You might be in a decent spot with the ULL wraparound. But those are notoriously finicky. The euro looks decent for the olympic peninsula