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By MICHELE MAY Rappahannock NY»s Staff Writer Well, we knew winter arrived at 5:80 a.m. today, Thursday, while many of us were still sleeping. But fre’r# ‘s * I wandering whether we’ll have a white Christmas. That seems especially crucial to those of us who were born in the '40s when Bing Crosby was at his prime. So. we tried our Sperryville weather watcher. Dennis Wingfield said. “Nope." He hadn't seen any permanent accumulations so far this year. There were a few fluffy flurries around Thanksgiving and all this week since Monday. There was even a trace laying on the ground once last month when the other Washington measured V> inch of crystalled precipitation. Last year a cold wave collie through during the < two weeks before on Decernber 12. 4V± inches fell. But then on Christmas day the temperatures were in the ’(ids. Wingfield remembered. "So who knows.” he wondered. White Christmas? “1 don't know, but I'm ready for it,” he said. We tried Bill Loftis at Shenandoah National Bark. He said the weather statistics at Big Meadows showed nine inches in November. That's more than at New Year’s. There were just 21/inches during the whole of January, 19S3. But so far this month? Just a trace; no accumulation. Amateur weather wizard Ben Richards forecast the first snowflake would fall on Rappahannock County on December 14 this year. His entry, duly postmarked in the District on November 10. was recently retrieved from the Rappahannock News “Know Snow" archives. Since his was the only prognostication, it was also the best guess. But since the News panel of local weather experts have yet to accumulate
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