<div>In the March-May US temperature map from NOAA, Idaho was assigned the next to lowest number, thus was second coolest in the lower 48, with Oregon the coolest and Washington third coolest. Thus based on this map, the Northwest had the coolest weather in the contiguous US from March to May. </div>
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<div>La Nina? Info on La Nina and Northwest US weather from Western Regional Climate Center:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/enso/ensofaq.html">http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/enso/ensofaq.html</a></div>
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<div>From URL above:</div>
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<div>In the Pacific Northwest, this appears to be not as true. La Nina generally brings cold, snowy, wet, active winters to the northern Cascades and the northern Rockies.</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>