Photos: Mixed weather signals
Hurricane Sandy visited Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica leaving lots of rain and destruction and then threatened the Florida Keys. Meanwhile, it's rainy in Iowa, unseasonably warm in Michigan, misty in the German Alps and snowing in Minnesota. We in Tucson don't like to brag, but we may call friends in Minnesota to give our weather report.
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A driver maneuvers his classic American car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A man drives his Coco-taxi as a wave crashes against the Malecon after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Students play in the waves crashing against the Malecon after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A surfer takes advantage of waves produced by Hurricane Sandy's outer bands at Haulover Beach in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, October 25, 2012. (David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/MCT)
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A group of surfers takes advantage of waves produced by Hurricane Sandy's outer bands at Haulover Beach in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, October 25, 2012. (David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/MCT)
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A pelican fights with the wind produced by Hurricane Sandy's outer bands at Haulover Beach in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, October 25, 2012. (David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/MCT)
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A man rides his bicycle under the arc made by a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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Men try to free an electrical wire wire from debris, which was turned off last night, after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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A woman peers from the doorway of her cement home that is being built within the frame of an wooden home, which was partially knocked down by the passing of Huriccane Sandy in Gibara, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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A youth turns his back to a wave crashing against the Malecon after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Residents look out on a street that was flooded by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Residents stand on a bridge that was previously destroyed in 2008 by Tropical Storm Gustav, while watching Hope River swell in the village of Kintyre, near Kingston, Jamaica, after the passing of Hurricane Sandy, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Sandy, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon near Kingston, crossed over Jamaica killing an elderly man when a boulder crashed into his clapboard house, police said. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)
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Attendees at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show walk in the breezy drizzly weather, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hurricane Sandy was expected to churn through the central and northwest Bahamas late Thursday and early Friday. It also might bring tropical storm conditions along the southeastern Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday morning. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Residents of the Port-au-Prince deal with the continued rainfall as they make their way through the streets of the capital city Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy roared across Cuba overnight, making landfall as a powerful 115-mph storm. Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince is still feeling the ripple effects, with gusty continuing rain as the Sandy makes it way towards the Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)
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The last patch of blue sky is surrounded by dark clouds as small boaters coast along a line of yachts at the 53rd Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Wednesday Oct. 24, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sandy emerged off Cuba's northeast coast around dawn and was moving north at 16 mph (26 kph), with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph) as it closed in on the central Bahamas. A tropical storm warning was extended northward as far as Flagler Beach and a tropical storm watch was issued for the northeastern Florida coast. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald,Charles Trainor Jr.)
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A Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue truck drives past a lifeguard stand on an empty beach, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hurricane Sandy was expected to churn through the central and northwest Bahamas late Thursday and early Friday. It also might bring tropical storm conditions along the southeastern Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday morning. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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It is an unseasonably warm October day in Detroit allowing Detroiters to get outside and enjoy the weather including Andy Emler , 45, of Detroit, who took time to bring his cooler and dog, Daisy to enjoy the sand and water and a game of fetch on Belle Isle Wednesday, October 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Regina H. Boone)
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Hikers make their way near a cross in front of the Kaiser Gebirge mountains near Bayrischzell, southern Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Hikers make their way in front of the Kaiser Gebirge mountains near Bayrischzell, southern Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Clouds hang over the Alps mountains near Bayrischzell, southern Germany, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A woman takes a stroll with her dog in the park of Augustusburg Castle in Bruehl, western Germany Thursday Oct 25, 2012. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather with rain for the next few days in Germany. (AP Photo/dapd/ Patrick Sinkel)
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Snow falls near the entrance to St. Mary's Cathedral in downtown St. Cloud, Minn., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Forecasts called for 1-3 inches of wet, heavy snow possible for the area Thursday. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz)
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A tear-shaped raindrops hang from the sculpture "Rachael Weaps for her Children" along Fourth Street in downtown SIoux City during misty weather Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The statue, part of the Sculpt Siouxland project, is by Cambridge, Neb., artist Sondra Jonson. Sioux City Journal photo by Tim Hynds