1.   Rain occurs when cold and warm fronts meet and all you need to do is create a source of low temperature to generate precipitation.

2.   As a result, a cool, light rain will occur in parts of central and southwest Texas.

3.   As a surge of very moist air is lifted by an approaching cold front, heavy rain will occur along the northern California coast on Monday morning.

4.   As warm, humid air ascends the southern Appalachians Tuesday, locally heavy rains will occur in parts of the western Carolinas and north Georgia.

5.   Behind the front, a chilly, soaking rain will occur from northern Minnesota to the eastern Dakotas.

6.   A few inches of snow could whiten northwestern Texas while freezing rain occurs in some south-central sections.

7.   A chilly, light rain will occur from east Texas to Arkansas.

8.   A few inches of snow will fall in the central Appalachians before a change to sleet and freezing rain occurs later Thursday and Thursday night.

9.   A cool rain will occur near a low pressure center as it moves from southeastern Michigan to northern New England.

10.   A little rain will occur as far north as Cleveland to Allentown.