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COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hello everyone, hope you're off to a great start to this little slice of heaven we call Friday, Fri-yay. I'm Coy Wire, this is CNN 10, but we're down to just like 9 minutes and 45 seconds, so let's get her done.

We start today in Southern Spain, where people there were subjected to a month's worth of rain in just one hour alone. Spain continues to get.battered by severe thunderstorms and torrential rain. Schools closed and more than 4,000 people evacuated the area of Malaga, which sits along the nation's southern coast.

This all comes just two weeks after the biggest flood in decades washed through Valencia, which is about a six and a half hour drive up north along the east coast of Spain. That took out roads and bridges, piled up cars and roadways, and killed more than 220 people.

Meteorologists say this series of rainstorms were part of two low-pressure weather systems causing stormy conditions enhanced by moisture coming off of the Mediterranean Sea and running up against Spain's coastal mountains.

WIRE: All right, we are less than two weeks away from Thanksgiving. The holiday season is about to kick off in full force. Did you know that 77% of Americans who plan to display a Christmas tree this year will opt for an artificial one? That's according to a survey done last year by the American Christmas Tree Association.

Despite that, in the U.S. about 25 to 30 million real Christmas trees are sold every year. And on average, it takes somewhere between four to 15 years to grow a single tree, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

CNN affiliate KSBY spoke with one farm in Templeton, California about the ups and downs of transitioning from pumpkin season to Christmas trees each holiday season.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): For co-owners of Jack Creek Farms, Mandy Evenson and Becky Sumpter, the holidays are a busy time of year. As the sisters convert from a pumpkin patch to a tree farm.

BECKY SUMPTER, CO-OWNER, JACK CREEK FARMS: Our pumpkin season actually runs all the way up to and including Thanksgiving. And then the day after Thanksgiving is when we transition into selling Christmas trees.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Farming both pumpkins and Christmas trees helps support the farm during difficult growing years.

SUMPTER: Years like this where a Christmas tree crop is a little bit skinny and we're kind of in between harvests, we had a great pumpkin harvest.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I asked why the tree harvest varies year to year.

SUMPTER: I only have a small dedicated patch on my farm. Each year that I harvest a tree, I'll replant a tree.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That means the trees you choose from this year might be smaller than you're used to.

MANDY EVENSON, CO-OWNER JACK CREEK FARMS: We found so many homes for most of the bigger guys last year that now we're waiting on the next crop to come up in size.

SUMPTER: So like this guy is going to be a four-year-old tree that's mature and ready to harvest. This is a little baby tree that you can see comes just past my knee.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The past few years of severe weather conditions made growing Christmas trees difficult.

SUMPTER: Bad floods, bad droughts, intense heat. That means we're kind of at an in-between year where I don't have as many trees available for picking.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Templeton-based farm is one of the few farms that still grows Christmas trees on the Central Coast.

SUMPTER: The vast majority of the Christmas trees that are purchased on the Central Coast are grown up in Oregon and Washington because they have the cooler weather, they have a climate that trees are better suited toward.

SUMPTER: They grow two varieties that are suited to the weather here in Templeton, the Monterey Pine and the Monterey Cypress, of which there are 40 full-size trees available this year.

EVENSON: We might sell out our first day this year.

WIRE: Pop quiz hotshot. Which planet has the largest ocean?

Venus, Earth, Jupiter, or Neptune?

Answer is Jupiter. Not only is Jupiter the oldest and largest planet in our solar system, a thousand times bigger than Earth, instead of water, Jupiter is believed to contain a smoldering ocean of liquid hydrogen, which generates a powerful magnetic field on the planet.

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