11.   A warming trend will continue in the Northwest where sunshine will be abundant.

12.   After a cold dawn, sunshine will be plentiful over a large area from the western Ohio Valley to the eastern Dakotas.

13.   After patches of early morning fog, sunshine will be plentiful in most of the Northeast as high pressure moves east from the Ohio Valley.

14.   But it has been very hard to convince Americans that sunshine can be unhealthy.

15.   Clouds and a few showers could linger in extreme northern New England, but otherwise sunshine will be plentiful across the region.

16.   Clouds will linger for a time in the eastern Plains, but sunshine will be ample in western sections.

17.   Cloudiness will linger near the western slopes of the southern Appalachians, but sunshine will be plentiful from the eastern Carolinas to most of the Gulf Coast states.

18.   Clouds will linger in the eastern Tennessee Valley, but sunshine will be ample elsewhere in the region.

19.   Despite a cold front stretching from Wyoming to central Nevada, sunshine will be plentiful in the central Rockies and Southwest.

20.   December through May is when the sunshine is brightest.