May end up being one of those summers where I take long camping trips to the east side of the mountains to escape the gloom. (To the east side of the mountains, not well east of them. Like cooler temps and more shade than the bottomlands of the Okanagan Valley or the Columbia Basin have, even in a coolish summer. There’s usually spots in the ponderosa pine belt that end up being in the Goldilocks zone during such summers (sunny afternoons, highs in the upper 70’s to low 80’s. Late July and early August are particularly nice because that’s usually when the saskatoon berries ripen. They often grow in abundance in the ponderosa belt and some years I’ve really pigged out on them.)
This was addressed yesterday. The last decade of wetter than normal winters fits a historical pattern of periods of wet and dry alternating.
Look at the 1990s. Or the 1950s. Similarly wet periods to the last decade.