Did a wet winter sink Orange County job growth?

Orange County bosses have cooled their hiring activity to the slowest pace in five years.
Can this economic chill be blamed on the weather?
Yes, we are still talking growth, but my trusty spreadsheet tells me for the past six months, year-over-year job increases have run at a pace below 25,000 new employees or 2 percent growth.
On one hand, that’s not shabby when you consider that since 1990, Orange County’s historical average job growth pace has been is 1 percent a year.
On the othe