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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Tuesday morning’s snow, delighting school children with a two-hour delay and worrying the county’s orchardists, felt like anything but the first day of spring.
“This is not that terribly unusual,” said Chip Knappenberger, a research assistant with the Office of the State Climatologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, speaking of Tuesday morning’s snow and his prediction of below-freezing temperatures Tuesday night.
“It’s just that it has been so unusually warm that plants — and some t-shirts and short pants - came out too early.”
The early fruit blossoms are a major concern in this area, since Mr. Knappenberger predicted temperatures in the mid20s Tuesday night and maybe even colder
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