21.   Skies were forecast to be mainly sunny along the East Coast after light morning showers and snow flurries stretching from northern New York to Maine.

22.   Southern Georgia and Florida were forecast to be cloudy.

23.   The economic growth rate is forecast to be zero percent this year.

24.   The run-up in heating oil prices was exacerbated by increasing demand amid tight supplies for heating oil in advance of what is forecast to be a cold winter.

25.   The rest of the area was forecast to be dry.

26.   The West was forecast to be mostly clear and dry with isolated showers possible in northern Washington, southeastern Arizona, eastern New Mexico and eastern Colorado.

27.   Two-thirds of that would have been spent seeding clouds, he said, on what is forecast to be an unseasonably cold, rainy day.

28.   Upper-level winds are forecast to be unfavorable for development during the next day or two.

29.   Winds also were forecast to be gusty across the Northeast, New England and the mid-Atlantic.

30.   Frightened California residents were fighting back Wednesday as two days of torrential rains let up slightly, but further heavy downpours were forecast to be on the way.