It's been a winter when we've oftentimes seen some pretty rapid fluctuations, You can't make anything more than that out of one year's variability. One year just can't do it. You'd want to see it frequently, two out of three years.

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

There was some pent-up demand by skiers because it's been a pretty warm winter. They wanted to go when the conditions are good, and it turned out to be very good.

When you have these fluctuations in temperatures and heavy rainfalls, it really messes the farmer up.

Whatever hits the water causes a ripple effect on land. Earth often undergoes rapid temperature fluctuations, and this new information may help us to understand how the biosphere will respond to human-generated alterations of CO2 concentration.

Most of these companies don't want to have the fluctuations, good or bad. When we saw the weakening dollar, it was a boon for companies like Coca-Cola ( Research ). But most companies hedge against the adverse scenario of a stronger dollar.