1.   But swirling winds dried the greens, making birdie chances less frequent.

2.   But winds dried the greens Saturday.

3.   Even farmers in the wettest areas of Missouri and Ohio are likely to push ahead this week, after intense heat and high winds this weekend dried many fields.

4.   Farther west, clouds banked along the Appalachian mountains will tend to crumble just east of the mountains as the gusty west winds dry on descent toward the coast.

5.   The instrument detected splotches of dry air east of the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, where Pacific winds were drying on descent toward valleys.

6.   The northwest winds will dry as they descend from the mountains resulting in plentiful sunshine from southern New England to the coastal Middle Atlantic States.

7.   These gusty winds will dry on descent from the mountains, causing clouds to break at times from east Georgia to the east Carolinas.