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not say what the weather will do. That’s the main rule in meteorology, according to Dennis Wingfield.

Of course, he adds, a rainy Easter wouldn’t be a total disaster. He has spoken with many folks who would rather that than “last year when it started and then just stopped.” Folks in the business remember last summer. The weather is their livelihood. ‘They’ve just got their eyes on the skies most of the time.”

Easter Forecast

Early this week the National Weather Service forecast another rainy Wednesday. Rain for Washington and Oregon. Rain also for the eastern Great Lakes area southward through the Ohio Valley to Tennessee. Rain in the Northern Piedmont and Central Foothills.

By deduction, then, if it rained again on Wednesday, could a sunny Easter Sunday be expected? It seemed to make sense.

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