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A combination of factors: marine heatwaves, drying hot seasons (June-September), and background anthropogenic warming.

My lawn was green, but leaf spot and brown patch came to visit. I heard from many lawn pros it is rampant in the NE this summer from excessive cloud cover, warm nights, excessive rain and high dew points. A lot of triggers for disease pressure and various lawn diseases.

PDX just reached 100, for the first time this year and setting a daily record. If the next few days reach forecast highs, the majority of August record highs at PDX will have been set in the past ten years!

The W/N Pacific warm piss pool of disaster is alive and well. Until that goes away my hopes for winter are about zilch (maybe some ridiculous combination of other factors can overcome the Pacific jet here and there but we've seen so many times how it all gets literally blown away, torn apart, etc and we get suppressed crap or a cutter or way too late bloomer). Even the strong 23-24 Nino couldn't really overcome it, it just added STJ juice to the insane Pac jet. September is by far the best weather month here. Hopefully we get a synoptic system or two to give us all some needed rain and otherwise warm and dry weather. Today's just glorious.

I also had no power for a week with that one.

it seems like it was even worse than that tropical system that also brought down a lot of trees that had winds of 80 mph in our area. That one was more widespread though

It was kinda localized, my area and other areas of Suffolk (from what I remember) we thought a tornado was hitting and we went to the basement. Came upstairs after and trees were down and debris was everywhere. I had to run the generator for a few days. easily over 80mph winds imby

wow what happened? incidentally this is also the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew making landfall in south Florida

Yep, the heavy rain in my forecast may end up a few drops. Again. Meanwhile Colorado Springs is getting dumped on. Again.

Have to get away from the light pollution for the Milky Way. Tonight will probably be the best night for stargazing of the entire month though.

cold falls suck, last year's fall was ideal.

But because of the omission of PD2, it doesn't work out to 5 years, especially with many of the other storms you listed being far inferior to PD2. In my own experience we get HECS once every 10 years. My definition of HECS: 20 inch snowstorm at either NYC or JFK.

Temps dropping pretty quick this evening. Already down to 69 degrees.

……,….. as always…………

it's possible, although the tendency seems to be for the heat to dump in the West. With our bad luck, this means we'll get a mild winter when the pattern reverses lol

Don I was thinking this is a lot like a summer leading into an el nino, recall 1994 when we had extreme heat in June too, July was also quite hot, and it got cooler by August. 2002, another el nino lead up, had quite a different summer.... Don, was 2013-14 also an el nino winter? That was the last time JFK had their final 90 degree day in July (ironic because that was such a hot summer up until then with a long heatwave and our last 100 degree high prior to this June.)

it's also close to a new moon which is adding to the high tides

you were so close to number 1 though your area really does not get many 90 degree days, I consider 15 to be about average for here.

6am to 8am

as long as I don't have to turn on my heat, it's fine. If it's not cold enough to snow, cold falls are absolutely useless.

Airmass has cooled and stabilized north of the Palmer Divide. So convective possibility has disappeared. Swing and a miss for strike one. Need something to generate lift, or upslope, or something.

That was my favorite October-Mid November period of all time. Saved a ton on heating.

My lawn is still quite green, mostly because the weeds are so happy. Relatively cool and cloudy month has helped mitigate the limited rain this month.

These are the bluest skies I have seen in a long time. I would love to see this kind of sky more often instead of the hazy crap we usually get.

How come the Pacific Northwest has been seeing most of the extreme heat the last few summers, Don? I feel like they are having what we had between 2010-2013?