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Stormy, soggy - and we're so sick of it

Published 06/21/09

It canceled your sons' baseball games and your daughters' lacrosse games. It slowed traffic at rush hour, soaked your lawn and flooded your basement.

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And it almost broke a 26-year record.

Today officially marks the first day of summer, and the end of what has been the wettest spring since 1983, according to records from the National Weather Service.

"There's definitely not one cause (of rain), it's just the way the pattern has been," said Jared Klein, a forecaster and meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Baltimore-Washington office in Sterling, Va.

Klein said funnel...

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not sick of it - 2009-06-21 12:30:47

I am internally grateful for the rain. I am going to have a record crop of produce in my garden and enjoy how green my acerage is this year.

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