Also, the unseasonably cold and rainy weather in the Phoenix area forced all but one of the six first round Pool D games to be played under the retractable roof at Chase Field.

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The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.

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Barak's campaign on the ground was washed out on Saturday when only 1, 000 Israeli peace activists braved rainy weather to trudge the streets of Jerusalem in a torchlight march in support of him.

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You won't need to worry about rainy or chilly weather dampening your day, so come on in the water's a fine 82 degrees all year!

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