Atmospheric Give and Take

For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. This is Newton's 3rd law (paraphrased) concerning energy and motion in the universe. Seems I've been hearing that one for many, many years. In weather, for every case of "extreme" weather, floods, heat waves, there's always equal but opposite weather happening somewhere else. We saw a perfect example over the winter season when folks in California saw storm sytem after storm system visit the southern part of state. Floods and even tornadoes were reported nearly every week. "Wha' happened?!" Well, SoCal basically got the winter weather (according to climate) that is usually seen in the Pacific Northwest. L.A. got Seattle's weather in a nutshell(save for the tornadoes). California saw too much rain, Washington and Oregon saw too little. We finished March of 2005 with about a 1/2" of rain. Where the heck did our rain go? It went to Dixie and the east coast. Lately we've been hearing about flooding in Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia. Yep, we should have been getting some of that wet stuff. The next 6 days appears to offer no changes in our progressive upper flow. It's all a matter of atmospheric give and take.