Article: Weather whine: New York blames Seattle for its rain.(The Big Blog)

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Deal with it, New York. We have. (Joshua Trujillo/Seattlepi.com file)

It's been raining a lot in New York, and guess whose fault that is?

Seattle's!

June in New York was a soggy mess, reported The New York Times, with 10.7 inches of rain approaching a record. Meanwhile, Seattle recorded just 0.18 inch of rain, tying a 29-day no-rain record that made for a popular story on the region's weather blogs.

What's the connection? According to Seattle meteorologist Cliff Mass, our sunshine caused their gloom.

"It's usual to have opposite weather," Mass told the Times. "There's a wavelike pattern to the atmosphere. We ...

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