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By LISA G. CURRIE
V Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
August ended on a dry note and brought September in with warmer temperatures and even dryer days.
Even though Sperryville weather watcher Dennis Wingfield recorded 4.77 inches of rainfall for the month of August, he admitted it was not a great deal more than average.
“August is our wet month,” he said, looking through pages of recorded temperatures and rainfall measurements. “It was a little bit wetter but in the ballpark. It was not an extreme of one way or the other.”
While mid-August days darkened and rain fell for one week, the total August measurement was not that much more than last year’s 3.54 inches and less than 1988’s 4.89 inches of rainfall. The drought of 1987 is the one remembered. Rappahannock County was only dampened with 1.52 inches of rainfall for the entire month of August.
While rainfall fell in some parts of the state early in the month, bringing other rainfall averages higher, local farmer Manfred Call sees things as dry at his Muskrat Haven Farm on U.S. 211 west of Amissville.
“It’s been a strange year,” he said, referring to the growing season in Rappahannock and his own pick-your-own vegetable and fruit stands and fields. Mr. Call also grows and sells hay and other crops.
He said hay, sweet and field com, beans and blueberries did well at his farm this year but things like strawberries, which fell victim to
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