Models continue to advertise a big-time clash between cold/warm air masses mid continent next week. Looks potentially explosive for the northern plains.

The Mexican heat ridge was in May. The U.S. has seen nothing sustained like that this month, and won't for at least the next week. You even said yourself last night that I was correct in pointing out models have been overpromising warmth in the long range for the western half of the country for weeks now.

Not sure what you mean. It's a pretty sizable difference for the plains, Rockies, and Intermountain West.

Got down to 47 here this morning. Have still been consistently getting down into the mid-upper 40s at night which has been really nice. Some years we flip the switch in late May/early June and can’t manage to get below 50 until September. Definitely looks like there will be some decent rain up here in Washington this weekend and early next week…but the gfs is still much different. Gfs shows that potent system early next week diving into SW WA/NW OR. Euro and Gem don’t really look as impressive with it. Just based on climo I’m guessing the gfs is off but we will see.

Here's the leader of the free world wandering off and forgetting where he is again. Apparently world leaders have become accustomed to it and you can see them all start to shuffle over to cover for him. Italian PM goes to grab him and remind him there is a photo op. I refuse to believe that Trump is the one who embarrassed America on the world stage when you have this clown out there making us look like a country of senile old citizens who elected another nursing home resident to run the show. Another Democratic talking point about Trump that is getting completely obliterated by their own guy.