1.   Also, recent bad weather from storms such as Hurricane Floyd helped to boost sales.

2.   An intensifying low in the Great Lakes will dominate the weather from the Plains to New England on Friday.

3.   A corridor of showers and thunderstorms will bring wet weather from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes as winds from the south transport humid air inland.

4.   A cold front with showers will bring an end to unusually mild weather from the central Plains to the northern Mississippi Valley.

5.   A complex storm will strengthen over the Great Lakes during the next two days causing unsettled weather from the northeastern Plains to New England.

6.   A major exception will be across the Pacific Northwest, where a disturbance embedded in the fast flow will promote cloudy, rainy weather from the Washington Cascades west.

7.   A mound of cool, dry air centered near the Canadian border will sponsor mainly pleasant weather from the upper Middle West to the East Coast on Tuesday.

8.   A potent jet stream disturbance will emerge from the southern Rockies on Thursday, setting the stage for inclement weather from eastern New Mexico to western Oklahoma.

9.   A slow-moving storm center southeast of Long Island will promote cool, damp weather from central New England to the Middle Atlantic coast.

10.   A sprawling storm system will bring widespread inclement weather from the Southwest to the western Gulf Coast.