Extra-Soggy June For Most Of The USMud season has been extended. From North Dakota to Long Island, rain after rain after rain has dampened spirits and swamped roads. Picnics and kids' baseball games have been washed out, rescheduled and rained out again. Big-time sports, too.
What's going on?
The high-altitude jet stream that guides the movement of weather across the country has been south of its normal position over the last couple of weeks, sending a series of storms across the Midwest and East, explained meteorologist Ed O'Lenic of the federal Climate Prediction Center.
"It's a lot like an extended spring," said O'Lenic in a telephone interview. "For whatever reason, and the atmosphere only knows the answer, this is the way it is being acted out."
My lettuce loves this weather - fresh salads every day. The tomatoes - not one fruit set yet. The cukes - hanging in. The hop rhizome - waterlogged. The groundhogs - keeping their head above the water level.
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