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By DENNIS WINGFIELD
Rappahannock New» Contributinf Writer
For some reason June’s weather pattern seems like a work week with every day being a Monday. No Wednesday for “hump day” and no Friday to look forward to the weekend. Just Mondays.
Well, almost. Almost, because every day but two showed temperatures at 80 degrees or above. On four of those days the mercury reached 90 or above.
Last June the high temperature was 89 with temperatures below the 80 mark for 60 percent (18 of 30 days) of the month.
And what about our farmer friends? The topic of concern obviously centered around the lack of rain. There was only .05 of an inch for the first seven days. We had no rain at all for the second seven days and only .07 of an inch for the third seven days.
No relief. No promise of relief. Just like working as if every day was Monday.
Of course we know the farmer cannot structure his work week the
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