1.   Corn and soybean futures tumbled for a sixth day as rain again doused Midwestern farms, raising the chances for a bountiful fall harvest.

2.   Even though the tropical Atlantic will stay rather quiet Thursday, tropical rains will still douse the Northeast.

3.   Farther north, heavy rain will douse parts of the upper Mississippi Valley, especially in Minnesota.

4.   Farther north, a chilly heavy rain will douse a narrow band stretching across southeast Oklahoma and northern Arkansas to the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys.

5.   Heavy rain will also douse parts of western Texas and eastern New Mexico as moist air swirls into slow-moving low pressure.

6.   Heavy rains have doused most of the last of the forest fires still burning outside Sydney, firefighters said on Wednesday.

7.   Heavy rain will douse parts of the Southeast along and near a front stretching across southern Alabama and southern Georgia.

8.   Heavy rain will douse parts of western Oregon and Washington on Wednesday as a potent upper-level disturbance presses inland from the Pacific.

9.   Heavy rain will douse portions of Southern California on Wednesday as a powerful jet stream disturbance moves ashore from the Pacific Ocean.

10.   Heavy rains will douse parts of New England on Thursday as tropical moisture streams inland over a stalled front off the Northeast coast.