El Nino, la nina, global warming, Congressional tweets aside --- what happened to our summer in Ocean Shores?

Clearly, one can determine that our three-day summer in early June was "it"!
The equatorial Pacific Ocean will not be plagued by an El Nino or La Nina weather anomaly in the summer of 2011, the first time since 2009 when conditions are neutral in the region, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said earlier this morning. For reference only, you are viewing late winter in March, 2011 (upper left earth) and early summer on 3 June, 2011 (lower right earth). No image for late summer on 6 June, 2011 is yet available.

Neutral? Then why did our summer come early this year and last only three days?

Even the clams and the salmon are confused.

What next? An earthquake and tsunami only 75 miles from our lovely (but chilly) beaches in Ocean Shores?

For the record, la nina means "little girl" in Spanish and el nino means "little boy" (presumably, the Christ child), but what either have to do with the suddenness of autumn falling upon the Pacific Northwest eludes me.

Then again, we are not having starvation-level droughts nor heavy snowstorms this early autumn ... yet.