Soaked and Cloaked in the Wet White West
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Southern California, already soaked from more than a week of downpours, was hit with more rain and snow.
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Heavy rain gave way to balmy record temperatures in western Washington on Wednesday as flood waters began receding.
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It was damp, often dark but far from dismal yesterday in the first round of the rain-delayed and frequently deluged HSBC World Match Play Championship.
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Storms that raked the Plains took aim at the Great Lakes and East Coast early Friday, while more wet weather was forecast for the West.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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Heavy rain is due to dampen the west of England on Sunday, continuing a run of appalling weather.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Mar. 3--As the water level rose in Hicks Lake during torrential rains this winter, so did nearby homeowners' fears of flooding.
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By Matthew Eisley, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 6--That was one wet week, what with Tropical Storm Ernesto and cool fronts spawning drenching showers and thunderstorms.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 19--Way back when, you could drive through West Texas and see irrigation canals filled with water. Conservation wasn't in vogue in the '50s and '60s, so the runoff would just collect along the road.
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West Coast residents struggled to dig and dry out from a winter storm system, even as more precipitation bore down on soaked towns from Puget Sound to San Diego.
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Lakes, rivers and whole regions are drying up dangerously fast. And then there's the floods.
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By Ron Jackson, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 27--WALTERS -- A Tuesday morning deluge dropped more than 5 inches on this already rain-soaked town and caused flash flooding in a section of town that sits on a hill.
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Blog: Some wet areas of Earth will get wetter with climate change.
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A pair of fronts sweeping through the eastern half of the country was expected to bring widespread rain on Saturday. The West was forecast to be mainly dry.
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MOAB, Utah _ What am I getting into, I muttered, as a summer storm crashed across the desert with thunder so deafening, I had to plug my ears.    I was at the orientation for a river-rafting trip, a five-day journey down the wild and remote Colorado River in the southern Utah desert.
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This city known for gray skies and frequent drizzle is close to breaking its own wet record.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.