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reported the first half of the month running nearly four degrees warmer oh a daily average than the same period last year. The monthly average temperature was 46.8 degrees by day. 29.3 by night, Wingfield reported Tuesday.

The entire month averaged five degrees warmer than February, 1983, said Wingfield, adding that it would have been higher yet without the statistics from, the past week “when Mother Nature brought us back to reality.”

His highest temperature was 65 degrees in Sperryville — on February 24, the same day it was so warm in D.C.

Then an early March wind blew through the county Saturday and turned it cold again, abruptly curing (Continued on Page 12)

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