Why can't I print this text to LCD? I've been working on this for 4+ hours, and have gotten nowhere.

I have an array of weather conditions, and a number is sent over serial port to indicate which member of the array to print to the LCD.

I'm guessing the problem is in how I'm defining the array. These are my current 2 guesses for how to define it:

String weatherConditions[49] = { "tornado","hurricane","tropical storm","sev tstorms","tstorms","mix rain-snow","mix rain-sleet","mix snow-sleet","freez drizzle","drizzle","freez rain","showers","showers","snow flur","lt snow show","blowing snow","snow","hail","sleet","dust","foggy","haze","smoky","blustery","windy","cold","cloudy","mostly cloud","mostly cloud","part cloud","part cloud","clear","sunny","fair","fair","mix rain-hail","hot","isol tstorms","scat tstorms","scat tstorms","scat showers","heavy snow","scat snowshow","heavy snow","part cloudy","tshowers","snow showers","isol tshowers","not available" };


or:

char weatherConditions[49][16] = { "tornado","hurricane","tropical storm","sev tstorms","tstorms","mix rain-snow","mix rain-sleet","mix snow-sleet","freez drizzle","drizzle","freez rain","showers","showers","snow flur","lt snow show","blowing snow","snow","hail","sleet","dust","foggy","haze","smoky","blustery","windy","cold","cloudy","mostly cloud","mostly cloud","part cloud","part cloud","clear","sunny","fair","fair","mix rain-hail","hot","isol tstorms","scat tstorms","scat tstorms","scat showers","heavy snow","scat snowshow","heavy snow","part cloudy","tshowers","snow showers","isol tshowers","not available" };


I've tried many other ways of defining the array (including "char* weatherConditions"), but I'm sure most of them were just ignorant guesses.

Later in the code I have this to display a member of the array:

lcd.clear();
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
lcd.print(weatherTodayHigh);lcd.print("/");lcd.print(weatherTodayLow);lcd.print(" ");lcd.print(weatherConditions[weatherCurrentConditionsCode]);
lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
lcd.print(weatherTomorrowHigh);lcd.print("/");lcd.print(weatherTomorrowLow);lcd.print(" ");lcd.print(weatherConditions[weatherTomorrowConditionsCode);
break;


Everything I try ends up causing nothing to be printed on the 1602 LCD display (I have 15 other scrollable "screens" that are displaying just fine on the LCD). The earlier text on this screen (the highs and lows for today and tomorrow) is displaying fine, but after that, where the weather condition text is supposed to be shown, there is nothing.

I'm able to easily display the same weather condition text on the serial monitor (for that I was using "String weatherConditions[49] = {..." and then "Serial.println(weatherConditions[currentValue]);").

How can I get members of a text array to be printed on the LCD?
Ignacio hit the nail on the head. Once I moved the weatherConditions array to EEPROM, the sketch worked perfectly. Also the IDE stopped giving me errors about low RAM.