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(Continued from Page 1) was compiling calculations based on statistics provided by his digital read-out thermometer which automatically resets itself at midnight. It tells him the highs. It tells him the lows. It tells him what time these events take place.
But, says Wingfield, until someone can predict the path of the jet stream, no equipment can ever say for certain what the weather will be. Still, he was optimistic Wednesday would have highs in the 50s or 60s. These temperatures would hit Sperryville sometime between 1:30-2:30 p.m. he added. “So if you want to go sun-bathing in Sperryville,” he quipped, “It’s generally warmer between 1:30 and 2:30 in the afternoon.”
He sobered when he remembered that he might be teaching during the prime sun time later this year if classes keep being canceled. But his attitude was mostly positive. “The upper atmosphere is warming up,” he said.
The temperature climbed five degrees in four hours Tuesday morning. For that reason, he doubted the radio forecast of more snow.
Bad March
Still, March of ’84 has a bad reputation so far, Wingfield said. During the first 12 days of the month the warmest day has been only 46 degrees. That was on Tuesday, March 6.
By this time last year there had been three days with temperatures in the 60s and one in the 70s. People were sunning themselves already. They were spreading lime in their gardens.
But not now. Through the 12th, it’s been 14 degrees colder during the day and 17V4 degrees colder at night than in March of 1983. “All I know is it’s a heck of a
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