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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.
“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.
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 past couple of weeks, sending a series of storms across the Midwest and East, said meteorologist Ed O’Lenic of the federal Climate Prediction Center.
