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Wingfield’s
weather
Sperryville weather watcher Dennis Wingfield reported that August was a bit kinder to the county’s farmers than was June or July.
Despite a dry beginning, heavy thundershowers on a semi-regular basis during the middle to later part of the month left Rappahannock’s farmers, gardeners and well-watchers with 3.93 inches of precipitation for August. That averages out to about three-quarters of an inch per week, which Mr. Wingfield termed “pretty good”. In comparison, last year August brought Rappahannock only 3.49 inches of rain, while in 1984 the county was inundated with 9.2ri inches.
Sperryville’s amateur meteorologist, who reports his readings to Channel 4 in D. C., as well as the National Weather Service, added that August is historically the wettest month of the year in the county. He reported that the nearly four inches for the month was preceded by 4.18 inches during July. June was a scorching month in the county, with only 1.45 inches reported by Mr. Wingfield for the entire month.
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