51.   Hurricane Bertha could also bring welcome rain to farmlands in the eastern U.S.

52.   If the monsoon season brings heavy rains, then celebrations can begin.

53.   In return the volcanoes bring rain for crops still grown on the plains.

54.   In the West, a stream of Pacific moisture will bring heavy rain to the Olympic peninsula while sunshine and dry weather covers California and the Southwest.

55.   In the humid air ahead of the front, scattered thunderstorms will bring needed rain to drought-plagued areas of Florida.

56.   In Southern California, El Nino usually brings more rain than normal while La Nina brings less.

57.   In the West, the latest in a series of Pacific fronts will bring rain to the Northwest Coast.

58.   It creates larger, additional storms, which inevitably follow in its path, bringing torrential rains to some places and leaving drought in others.

59.   It ripped buildings, brought torrential rains and washed boats ashore.

60.   July and August brought little rain to Latin America, as El Nino altered normal wind and rainfall patterns, analysts said.