Lawn mower service centers in southern Wisconsin have been busy lately.

"You'll see grass and water and everything flying out of the mowers," said Duane Nolden.

Nolden works at Middleton Power Center and says the near constant rain we've been having has led to people mowing wet or overgrown grass.

And that has led broken mowers.

"You can have slippage of belts," said Nolden, "you can have blades that get wrecked, because the grass all gets caught under there and you'll break belts."

Yard work isn't the only thing this rain is putting on hold.

The Madison School and Community Recreation program has already canceled 300 softball games this year.

Officials there say that's usually the total number of cancellations for an entire summer ... and we're only in May.

UW meteorologist Scott Lindstrom, says the Madison area has been getting more rain than normal, but not as much as you might think.

"We haven't had that much rain total," said Lindstrom, "it's just a lot of tenth of an inch here, two tenths of an inch there. So the totals haven't been really huge, its just everyday."

For the long–term, Lindstrom says we can expect a normal summer, with the typical mix of rain and shine.

Which means, eventually, we'll be able to head outdoors again.

"We'll be closer to more of a progression of weather systems instead of them sticking around for days upon days," said LIndstrom, "which is what we've had for the last week."

Lindstrom agrees with our favorite meteorologists, here at NBC 15.

They say the rain and gloom is about to come to an end, with much better weather next week.