1.   In a typical year, Valley cotton farmers would be in the fields now, applying weed killer and preparing the land.

2.   And in a typical year, Daniel Baal would be among the most interested spectators.

3.   Five heart attacks occur on the exchange floor in a typical year, he said, and two of them are usually fatal.

4.   In a typical La Nina year, unusually cool water covers the eastern Pacific along the Equator, contrasting with warm water to the west.

5.   In a typical year, melting snow can conspire with increased rainfall to make river flooding a threat.

6.   In a typical year, all vaccine orders arrive at roughly the same time.

7.   In a typical year, most corn farmers, for instance, have begun to plant by now.

8.   In a typical year, spring rain and snowmelt are what refill drinking water supplies.

9.   In a typical year, the first inch would fall by this weekend.

10.   In a typical year, melting snowpacks can conspire with increased rainfall to make river and stream flooding a threat.