June has not been very summery,blame it on the Arctic Oscillation. Also, swine flu update follows below.

We all know how wet and cool the weather has been this month and we all wonder why. The jet stream is well south for this time of year. It belongs in Canada yet it lingers down across the Northeast U.S. The Arctic Oscillation seems to be the culprit. It shifted about June 1st and has remained in a negative configuration since then.

The Arctic Oscillation is a semi-permanent low and high pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean. When the low near Iceland is weak and the sub-tropical high pressure to the south of it is also weak , the wind field across the North Atlantic is weak as well. This is the negative configuration and it allows cold air from the north to sink south toward the eastern seaboard. If this were winter it would be a cold and snowy time.

As long as the pattern remains as is, our weather will continue in the same fashion as it has for all of June. When will it Change? No one really knows. It can last for a few weeks to a couple of years. Stay tuned.

Remember this is late June and some kind of sunny warm weather should work its' way in eventually.( Thursday? )

Could this pattern be related to our current low number of sunspots? Could be. Read below.





SWINE FLU UPDATE

The swine flu virus continues to behave in a peculiar fashion. Despite being in the summer season, it continues to spread, now affecting summer camp youngsters. What this virus may or may not do next autumn is anyones' guess. One million cases of swine flu in the US already is what some experts now estimate

Table. U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection
Web page updated June 25, 2009,
7:00 PM ET to coincide with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting
(Normally updated each Friday at 11 AM ET)
Data reported to CDC by June 25, 2009, 11:00 AM ET.

States and Territories*	Confirmed and Probable Cases	Deaths
States
Alabama	239 cases	0 deaths
Alaska	46cases	0 deaths
Arkansas	35 cases	0 deaths
Arizona	729 cases	8 deaths
California	1492 cases	16
Colorado	103 cases	0 deaths
Connecticut	877 cases	5
Delaware	267 cases	0 deaths
Florida	941 cases	2 death
Georgia	65 cases	0 deaths
Hawaii	465 cases	0 deaths
Idaho	72 cases	0 deaths
Illinois	2875 cases	12
Indiana	251 cases	0 deaths
Iowa	92 cases	0 deaths
Kansas	117 cases	0 deaths
Kentucky	119 cases	0 deaths
Louisiana	153 cases	0 deaths
Maine	61 cases	0 deaths
Maryland	414 cases	1 death
Massachusetts	1287 cases	1 death
Michigan	468 cases	2 deaths
Minnesota	537	1 death
Mississippi	114 cases	0 deaths
Missouri	55 cases	1 death
Montana	44 cases	0 deaths
Nebraska	111 cases	0 deaths
Nevada	250 cases	0 deaths
New Hampshire	207 cases	0 deaths
New Jersey	899 cases	6 deaths
New Mexico	232 cases	0 deaths
New York	2272 cases	35 deaths
North Carolina	179 cases	1 death
North Dakota	48 cases	0 deaths
Ohio	93 cases	0 deaths
Oklahoma	123 cases	1 death
Oregon	289 cases	3
Pennsylvania	1483 cases	3 deaths
Rhode Island	132 cases	1 death
South Carolina	120 cases	0 deaths
South Dakota	22 cases	0 deaths
Tennessee	148 cases	0 deaths
Texas	2981 cases	10deaths
Utah	874 cases	10deaths
Vermont	46 cases	0 deaths
Virginia	191 cases	1 death
Washington	588 cases	3deaths
Washington, D.C.	33 cases	0 deaths
West Virginia	114 cases	0 deaths
Wisconsin	4273 cases	4 death
Wyoming	72 cases	0 deaths
Territories
Puerto Rico	18 cases	0 deaths
Virgin Islands	1 case	0 deaths
TOTAL (53)*	27,717 cases	127 deaths
*Includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This table will be updated each Friday at 11 AM ET. International Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection See: World Health Organization. NOTE: Because of daily reporting deadlines, the state totals reported by CDC may not always be consistent with those reported by state health departments. If there is a discrepancy between these two counts, data from the state health departments should be used as the most accurate number. For more information about how these case counts are updated, see Questions & Answers About CDC's Online Reporting.