1.  Ample sunshine and comfortable warmth will prevail over a large area from the southwestern states to the central and southern Plains.

2.  Another advantage is the large number of immigrants into Massachusetts who are well-educated in comparison with immigrants going to southwestern states.

3.  Areas of snow and ice will develop from northern Texas to the mountains of southern Colorado as a jet stream disturbance approaches from the southwestern states.

4.  At the same time, the jet stream entirely misses Southern California, Southwestern states and Gulf states, leaving them drier than normal.

5.  Both start in the southwestern state of Tachira and run northward to Lake Maracaibo and the planned port of Puerto Venezuela.

6.  Both start in the southwestern Andean state of Tachira and run northward to Lake Maracaibo to the planned port of Puerto Venezuela.

7.  A jet-stream disturbance will combine with moist air to produce a cluster of strong thunderstorms from the central Mississippi valley to the southwestern Great Lakes states.

8.  A powerful earthquake rocked Mexico City and several southwestern Mexican states Saturday, sending terrified residents into the streets and public safety workers onto full-alert.

9.  A potent disturbance will move into the southwestern states, bringing an expanding area of mountain snow and valley showers.

10.  Acapulco, on the Pacific coast in the southwestern state of Guerrero.