21.   Mostly clear weather is forecast for the days ahead, according to Weather Services Corp., also improving crop conditions.

22.   New England folks will be heartened to hear that it is not blazing hot in Florida and nasty weather is forecast for the region over the next three days.

23.   Predicting the orbits of comets is a precise science, but predicting how they will look is an arcane art, more akin to forecasting the weather.

24.   Similar weather is forecast for next week.

25.   The favorite is Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya, which means that forecasting a winning time is as futile as forecasting the weather.

26.   The killer quake in Japan is a reminder of its vulnerability to temblors -- and its failure to forecast them as a meteorologist forecasts the weather.

27.   The programs use mathematics to forecast the weather, while Gray and his team combine computer programs and a study of past storm activity in their predictions.

28.   The profession has come a long way since Magic Markers, magnetic stickers, and even hand puppets were used to forecast the weather.

29.   The turbulent weather is forecast to continue off and on through mid-week.

30.   This could allow them to forecast the weather with greater accuracy and to detect subtle symptoms of long-term global warming.