41.   The rain has turned to hail.

42.   The rain will turn heavy for a time over northern California as a jet stream disturbance passes overhead.

43.   The rain will turn heavy for a time, accumulating more than an inch in some areas.

44.   The spring rains turn the dirt to impassable mud.

45.   Then, even as mild Atlantic air continued to stream overhead, rain turned to snow.

46.   They shot it out at noon, not long after a hard summer rain had turned the city roads to mud.

47.   Too much rain turned desert areas into chaparral or grasslands.

48.   Unfortunately, rain had turned the trail into a quagmire.

49.   With that in mind, Mott excuses himself and trots a pony onto the track as heavy rain turns the dirt to mud.

50.   Years ago, Dahlman began noticing something funny about horses equipped with mud calks, cleats that some trainers use for extra traction when rain turns dirt into mud.