Everybody talks about the weather, Mark Twain famously wrote, but nobody does anything about it.
"We just got unlucky with the weather, " said Mark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of competition.
Weather related issues made their mark as well, with hurricane Arlene becoming the first official tropical storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season.
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In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton said the weather was taxing the resources of local and county governments, and he issued an executive order activating the National Guard.
However, economists said it was too early to cheer the forecast as the weather department often goes off the mark, including last year when it initially predicted normal rains.
"I'm worried, " said Mark Fuchs , a National Weather Service hydrologist in suburban St.
Mark Fuchs, a National Weather Service hydrologist, said the latest dousing could be especially troublesome for communities along the Illinois River, which is headed for record crests.
"What we saw last night doesn't happen all that often, " Mark Jackson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif.
All told, an estimated 10 tornadoes hit the region, said Mark Wiley, an emergency-response meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
They are usually long-term investors and are not required to mark their positions to market, so they have been able to weather day-to-day fluctuations in prices better than leveraged hedge funds.
Mark Diggins, co-ordinator of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, said weather conditions were fairly dry and there had been little snow over the last four days.
Weak traffic and off-mark products led to slower than expected sales in May, when wet, chilly weather may have provided too weak inspiration for consumers to start shopping for summer items, analysts at RBC Capital Markets say.
Crews with the weather service still were assessing whether tornadoes were to blame for other damage in Missouri and neighboring Illinois, meteorologist Mark Fuchs said.
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