2020-2021 and 2021-2022 were regional respites, however, they were also opportunities for mother nature to spend time with me alone and "groom me" for the resumption of the larger scale regional abuse in 2022-2023.
We were due for one like that....had been since 2003-2004. We were due for a variety of different poison pills. We got the "La Nino" a la 1972-1973 last year.....1950s style bottomed-out RNA the previous year, death star vortex over AK and the arctic in 2019-2020. That about covers it-
The complete Kama Sutra on how to sodemize the region from every angle and position imaginable has been written.
I'd still have preferred this to another torch not in the sense that it was any more pleasant, but due to what it likely portends moving forward with respec to multidecadal trends.
I can't hold low level cold with a nor' easter lumbering up the coast in January, but lord knows you can't pry it out of my cold, dead hand in April....nope. I'm one with that b1tch until Memorial day.