Wettest beginning of summer of memory. More than 11 days of rain without a break to make up for several years of dry weather. Weather men on the big three have made mistakes in just getting the last 7 days right. Every other set of storms bring lightening in each cold front. Near Philadelphia we have had large downpours creating ponds in depressions in the backyard.

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East To West, Summer Rain Unrelenting

East Coast Especially Hard Hit By Wet Weather

RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
POSTED: 4:06 pm EDT June 18, 2009

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WASHINGTON -- Mud 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.
In Farmingdale, N.Y., Tiger Woods' defense of the U.S. Open championship was delayed Thursday as rain pelted an already soaked course and postponed most of the first round until Friday. "Where's my canoe," England's Ian Poulter wrote on his Twitter feed.
In Bismarck, N.D., heavy rain swamped streets, stressed storm sewers and stalled vehicles. Roads were shut down, and the roof of a bowling alley collapsed under the weight of water.
Rainfall has totaled 5.32 inches so far this month in New York's Central Park, more than double the normal 2.17 inches for the period.
"This has been a very rainy spring," observed Victoria Cahn, 27, dodging puddles on a lunch run from her office on the University of Pennsylvania campus. "Usually in June we have the air conditioning on half the time at least."
The lifelong Philadelphia resident said, "I'm a volunteer sailor on the (1883 tall ship) Gazela ... and we've been trying to find dry time to work outside on the weekends, and it just hasn't been there -- we always find ourselves interrupted by a thunderstorm or two."
The City of Brotherly Love has sloshed through 3.40 inches of rain so far this month, far above the 1.81 normal reading.
In Hartford, Conn., where there has been 3.61 inches of rain this month, compared to a normal of 2.26, Jennifer Potter, en route to work, said: "I wish I were in Florida. I like the sun and the beach, not all this rain."
Other people said they are baffled by the frequent downpours this month as well. Folks in the Northeast and upper Midwest are used to "mud season," a period when winter's frozen ground has thawed and has yet to be dried out by sunny days. But not into late June.
"This is not typical June weather," said Sacha Kelly, of Hartford, a 29-year-old teacher who huddled under an umbrella with daughter, Aleema, 5. "I would expect it to be more sunny."
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."
While calendars say summer begins on Sunday, that refers to astronomical summer. Meteorological, or weather summer, began June 1.
Parts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania have received rain totals 1.5 to 3.75 inches greater than normal for the past two weeks, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
One possible reason is "persistence," said Kathryn Vreeland, a climatologist at the center.

I hope it lets up before I start hiking PA next week!

I'm always glad when it's raining the week before I hike figuring it portends dry weather on the way.

It's like fricking buffalo rochester weather here. So many miserable cloudy days this spring. They were talking about depression and suicide assitance on the radio today. It poured almost non=stop today. Just unbeleivable.
Well at least the springs will be flowing for the rest of the year.

Yea I have been trying to work on the camper today and have to stop with each downpour as I don't want the water/mud getting into cab or middle of the van.

Forecast for Harrisburg area (figure roughly PG Furnace to Swatara Gap) is for a little drying out the beginning of the week. Showers in the forecast for Sunday, then drier except for a slight chance of showers on Tuesday. It figures the week I will be stuck indoors at basketball camp is when it will be nice outside.

I even heard we might see the sun next week... imagine that!

NO way! I was just told to build an ARK!

I'm getting tired of this weather also. This spring I was trying to go for a hike twice a week and was doing a good job of it. I did get out one evening last week, but I don't particularly like hiking in the rain.

I also have a huge old cherry tree in my back yard that will do very poorly this year. When it's constantly wet like this the cherries just rot on the tree before the are fully ripe.

Oh well, that's nature. :sun

Lots of rain here in RI, too. With my busy schedule it's been hard to find time between the rains to mow the lawn. It looks to be about 5" high. I cut it at 3.5", but I just cut it 3 days ago!
Anyway, I'd rather be hiking in it than watching it from my basement apartment. I bet more than a few would be thruhikers are taking multiple zeros right about now. I hope it clears up for them soon.

Pennsylvania is lucky to have such fine weather -- compared with coastal Maine.

May gave us 4.5 inches of rain, a bit above average, but worse was the lack of sun. None of those inches dried up. June has been worse. The weather bureau has recorded 6.4 inches, not counting the inch or so that has been falling over the past 24 hours.

We've had rain or drizzle most days this month -- and the showers aren't predicted to stop until Wedesday -- followed by more clouds. The first chance of significant sun seems to be next Saturday.

Why am I concerned? My garden is a giant mud puddle. During a brief break Friday I tried to plant some winter squash before it gets too late for the squash to mature. Walking on my clay garden soil in my wide-soled rubber boots was like walking on a soft inner spring mattress. I had to struggle just to keep upright.

Weary

Here in N. Central Mass., the forecast is for the temps to hit 70F on Wed. Sun is unlikely.
Temps 50s to 60s, rain or drizzle all this month.