31.   Neither Magness nor other witnesses reported seeing a funnel cloud, and National Weather Service meteorologists said the damage was probably caused by straight-line winds.

32.   Numerous meteorologists said they look forward to analyzing data from the tornadoes.

33.   Rain soaked spring wheat crops in Montana, the Dakotas and Minnesota over the weekend, meteorologists said.

34.   Rain or snow is likely in the major wheat states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas today and tomorrow, meteorologists said.

35.   Sinking air is the key, because air always dries and warms as it sinks, says meteorologist Tim McClung of the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles.

36.   Some cocoa-growing regions could suffer dry conditions, meteorologists have said.

37.   Southern homeowners and farmers might be passed by one weather extreme only to get hit by another, one meteorologist said.

38.   The drought has affected other countries of the Caribbean and Central America, National Weather Service meteorologists said, with those farther from the equator faring the worst.

39.   The forecaster today reduced the threat, confirming what U.S. meteorologists have said in recent days.