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peratures are running about one degree per day cooler than last year, despite several recent hot spells.
The lack of rain is certainly not limited to Rappahannock County. Last week a brush fire started by an overturned cookstove burned 4,475 acres in the Shenandoah National Park just south of Elkton. The fire, which took several hundred firefighters almost a week to control, is still not completely out, according to Chief Park Ranger Larry Hakel. “People are still out walking the fire lines. We still had smoke last night, but the hot spots are contained well within the fire lines.”
Mr. Hakel said that for several days last week all open fires, including cookstoves and fires in the campgrounds, were prohibited because high winds and the severe drought. He added that “today’s (Tuesday’s) rain will be a help,” but that the Park Service is still advising campers to be “extremely careful, especially in the backcountry.”
The United States Geological Survey, which maintains river-flow
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