The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows.
Thickening cloud will spread rain eastwards through the afternoon, although eastern parts may stay dry until evening, with a maximum temperature of 15 C (59F).
Many coal plants whose emissions were spreading acid rain, mercury and the ingredients of global warming have not been running as much lately, and the price of coal was down by half in the last year — like the price of oil.
Despite reports of wide spread rain in the central Mid west, soybean futures dropped sharply from seasonal highs under substantial profit taking yesterday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
The bloodshed comes after two months of slow-burning protests, which spread from rain forests in Peru's north to the country's south, and have focused on interrupting petroleum production and transportation.
Through the morning of September 3, Tropical Depression Gustav briefly drifted north-northeastward under very weak steering currents, but stalled completely over southwestern Arkansas that afternoon and spread heavy rain into the mid-Mississippi Valley.
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A yellow warning for rain was issued for Saturday, with showers, some of them heavy and thundery, together with outbreaks of rain spreading north across much of England and Wales.
"But bank holiday Monday could see wind and rain spreading in from the south-west.
