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and a 40 percent chance of showers for Friday.
At least the odds were declining. Quipped the announcer, “If it’s true what they say about April showers, we ought to be surrounded by flowers.”
A surplus of flowers failed to appear.
The showers only brought bizarre behavior from the weather. In Sperryville the temperature fell from 57 degrees to 51 in less than 15 minutes. Then al
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