1.   Across the parched southwest section of America, farmers are pitted against severe water shortages with no end in sight.

2.   In Washington, the couple lived in an apartment in the southwest section of the capital, near the Potomac River.

3.   Now a dusty mound, it and surrounding land are being transformed into a park and sports complex in the southwest section of town.

4.   A few heavier showers may develop across southwest sections of Puerto Rico later this afternoon ... With a very slight chance of a thunderstorm.

5.   An increase of cloudiness is expected across the southwest sections of Puerto Rico this afternoon with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms.

6.   However, scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will develop along the south and southwest sections of Puerto Rico this afternoon.

7.   High pressure aloft continues across Hispaniola, with the extreme southwest section of an upper trough extending into the northeast Caribbean.

8.   However, northeast winds will interact with the sea breeze along the southwest sections of Puerto Rico to produce scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm.

9.   Increasing late afternoon cloudiness is expected across southwest sections of puerto rico with widely scattered light showers developing.

10.   Moderate east winds will prevail across the area with scattered showers mainly over the southwest section of Puerto Rico.