21.   After several years of terribly dry weather, El Nino rains have turned the desert into a plush, lush thing of beauty.

22.   But by evening the freezing rain had turned to snow, and before long six inches had fallen over a glaze of ice.

23.   He bared his chest to a quick misting and watched as the rain turned the dirt on his toes to mud.

24.   In the early morning hours of Monday, a chill rain turned to wet snow which came down hard for several hours before daybreak.

25.   Late-summer rains have turned some areas, such as Lampasas and portions of Southwest Texas, green almost overnight.

26.   Outside, a heavy rain turned the dirt parking lot to mud.

27.   Others drowned as rains turned villages into lakes.

28.   Rain turned it into a mud bog.

29.   Rain turned the fields of the original Woodstock festival into mud ponds.

30.   Rain turned to snow, then to stinging pellets of ice and back to rain.