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The cool temperatures which graced the area over the holiday weekend represented quite a departure from the blazing heat and scorching sun which have covered the county for most of the summer. On August 25, the mercury dipped to 4£ degrees, the first time it had slid that low since June 26. Mr. Wingfield drew a comparison with the cool late August temperatures last year, but quickly cautioned against betting on an early fall. “Last year, September fourth to the tenth was 90 or above every day, after August had produced cool temperatures just like this.
The abrupt drop in the mercury that Monday night had Rappahannock residents scrambling for blankets. Mr. Wingfield said that the thermometer slid 15 degrees in five and a half hours (from 73 degrees at 4:30 p.m. to 58 at 10:05) and then plunged another nine degrees during the night to the low of 49 at just before 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Wingfield said that average daytime temperatures are running “about par with last year, about onehalf degree below normal. But nighttime readings are about three and a half degrees above.” Most of the precipitation for the month fell on the 20th and 21st, he reported. On Wednesday, .90 inch fell in a period of several hours, which brought small mountain streams and roadside gullies rushing up to, and in some cases over, their banks. The next day an additional .72 inch fell, although this rain did not produce the high waters which were seen on Wednesday.
Mr. Wingfield added that Hurricane Charley, which passed along the Mid-Atlantic coast produced “nothing but clouds in Rappahannock.”
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