21.   In some places, the skin of the earth has been peeled away by scouring sandstorms and washed clean by pummeling summer rain.

22.   In the Sierra Nevada, summer rain means gully washers.

23.   In the past, October has been a relatively clear month, with the air still washed by summer rains.

24.   Is it because of the earlier summer rains that are causing the limbs to be too heavy to support the heavy pecan load?

25.   Leafing and fruiting are initiated by summer rains.

26.   Or, when the summer rains fall with a fury, duck in under the roof at the Irish Cottage in Delray Beach.

27.   Rains this summer could reverse that trend.

28.   The huge sloped roof catches thousands of gallons of rain each summer.

29.   The mold appeared after the building was flooded by rains last summer.

30.   The summer rains are just days away, and families work to get their fields of corn and other grain weeded and in order.