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By MICHELE MAY

*i News Staff Wrttar

“Did we order this good weather? I’d like to say, Heck, yea’ ” humbly confessed Sperryville weather watcher Dennis Wingfield owes while there was a reprieve in the recent spate of April showers.

Of course Wingfield only records the weather, he cant control it — especially this time of the year. “On April 9, 1982, there was one indi of snow,” he recalls, “So April truly must be the fickle month.”

So far this year April hasn't been quite so unpleasant, he says. “We’ve had

nice

but

so

days, warm, but at least that hrips people’s frame of

1,” be remarked last

not

sunny,

Wingfield's statistics dmw an average high of 54.2 degrees during the first 10 days of this month and an

65.8%