But it has been hit by bad weather in recent days.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

"There were severe weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries."

VOA: special.2010.12.07

Instead of despairing at the discomfort of rain and mud, the crowd rejoiced in its power to resist the weather."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Their work can be seen in the extreme weather videos that are increasingly popular on television and on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

NOAA's National Weather Service center in Palmer,Alaska supervises a warning station for the United States mainland and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

All the members of the Dead Weather had a part in writing the songs on their debut album.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Harrison caught a cold, probably from standing so long outside in the bitter weather of inaugural day.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The team then compared those records to weather conditions in the twenty-four hours before the hospital visits.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

In cold weather, many of these young volunteer firefighters wore coats made of the skin of buffalo to keep them warm and dry.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Most climbers make the trip in late April and May when weather conditions are the least severe.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Ted Fujita was a weather expert who developed a system to rate tornados in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

She can get to know her neighborhoods paths, enjoy the trees and experience the changes in weather.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Scientists say the presence of iron in the rock shows that the weather was hot and dry when the rock was first formed.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

There were no slaves in the West. The land and the weather were not right for the kind of farming that used slaves.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Vanilla comes from orchid plants growing in South America and other places with warm, moist weather.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Except in very cold weather, water shoots from a circle of fountains in the middle.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

This gas is a problem in all parts of the world that experience cold weather.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

Mulch can be added late in autumn to help moderate the effects of winter weather.

VOA: special.2009.06.30