11.   Heavy storms are expected in Northern California for the next five days, and authorities are bracing for up to five inches in the Russian and Feather river areas.

12.   Heavy storms flinging wind and rain pummeled much of the New York region, leaving nearly half a million suburban homes without power Sunday.

13.   Heavy storms were unusually concentrated in mountain regions of Shaanxi in central China and Fujian in the southeast, causing torrents that struck with little warning.

14.   Heavy storms are more likely to develop over the southern half of the peninsula.

15.   Isolated heavy storms will also flare across Florida in concert with moist air being lifted by the leading edges of Atlantic and Gulf sea breezes.

16.   Isolated thunderstorms will develop over the Southeast, with a few heavy storms over southern Florida.

17.   Oddly enough, Hampton said, some areas, like the one off Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz, actually become birthplaces for beaches in heavy storms.

18.   Part of the upward trend, however, may come from a higher frequency of heavy storms, which some believe is directly related to global warming.

19.   Saturday, this cool front will sponsor a few clusters of heavy storms in the Midwest.

20.   Sometimes trees can benefit when heavy storms cull weak branches, but not this time, said Forest Decker, the city forester.