1.   Middlesbrough face a real struggle to peg the confident Diamonds, who have dominated the northern section of the Gold Cup and are tipped for the league title.

2.   Ample sunshine and mild conditions will prevail Tuesday over most of the Plains and Mississippi Valley, although patchy clouds will dim the sun at times in northern sections.

3.   An Environmental Protection Agency study says eating fish from the northern sections of the Hudson River increases the risk of cancer and other health problems because of PCB contamination.

4.   An unusually strong jet stream disturbance will bring cool, showery weather to northern sections of the interior West and Pacific Northwest.

5.   As a result, the sturgeon will either have to winter in the Caspian cold northern section, or will be hindered from returning to breeding grounds in spring.

6.   As large tracts of snow in northern sections of the hemisphere succumb to the strengthening sun, the breeding ground for winter chill disappears.

7.   Behind the front, cooler and drier air will filter into northern sections of the Great Lakes and New England.

8.   A cold front pushing south from western Canada will be accompanied by light snow in the northern sections of Montana.

9.   A cold rain will drench northern sections Sunday, with even some wet snow or sleet possible in the central panhandle.

10.   A band of gusty showers will mark the northern section of the front from Ohio into western New York.