Strange sogginess, a little misplaced

There's an article in the LA Times with the title "L.A. Soggier than Seattle."

Having recently returned to Seattle, I can say we've had the strangest winter ever. Although the climate is usually mild, it's often quite wet all through the winter, with years past including 90 straight days with at least some preciptation. This winter, we've had none. I'm looking out on another cloudless, sun filled morning.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles is literally floating away in places. They haven't seen rain like this in ages.

Rainfall as of Monday afternoon totaled 32.03 inches downtown, more than three
times the normal through the date of 9.89 inches and bearing down on the annual
record of 38.18 inches set in 1883-84.

And Seattle is hurting:

Meanwhile, it's expected to be sunny today in Seattle. Rainfall there since October has amounted to 15.7 inches -- two-thirds of normal -- and mountain snowpack is skimpy, leaving locals anxious about a repeat of the 2001 drought.

That's because February's storms have been steered away from Washington and
Oregon by the jet stream: the storms picked up tropical moisture, then hit
Southern California, said John Dlugoenski, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com.

The Jet Stream has stolen the rain and sent it south.