41.   The last two Novembers, said the meteorologist, Sam Perugini, of Pennsylvania State University, were also unusually cold.

42.   The regionwide steam bath was expected to intensify on Saturday and then begin to ease off on Sunday, meteorologists said.

43.   The storm could reach the U.S. Southwest in two to three days, meteorologists said, with rain reaching the Midwest during the weekend or early next week.

44.   The springlike weather will not last, meteorologists say.

45.   They had hoped to set down near the Pyramids in Cairo, but the winds will take them too far south, their meteorologists said.

46.   To be sure, meteorologists said rain forecast for the weekend in the Midwest may be less than crops need.

47.   To make accurate daily forecasts months or a year in advance, as several almanacs try to do, is impossible, many meteorologists say.

48.   While some rain fell overnight in Chicago and surrounding areas, meteorologists said it was too little to benefit the parched crops.

49.   With El Nino conditions likely to persist, the Gulf Coast may be in for a rough spring, meteorologists say.