[J P Stein]

I've lived all my life (only 68 years) in the NW.....Portland area since 75.
"Normal" for the NW (if one leaves out the grays) is abnormal elsewhere......I'm used to it.

Back when I was a kid, my dad knew the chief metroroglist at Sea Tac. This fella said that new hires were sent up there to learn to forcast the weather....cause it was the toughest station in the service/country. One weather ship 600 miles off Tatosh island for observations.

My observation is that one remembers the hot periods & the cold peroids best.