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and on the “average daytime temperatures are just about normal’ he said, adding nighttime temperatures are 3 1/2 degrees cooler than last year.
Mr. Wingfield recorded a low of 42 degrees on Monday morning and a high of only 60 degrees during the day, whereas last week daytime temperatures were hovering in the high 80s, with nightime temperatures dropping only into the 70s.
Mr. Wingfield said the sudden weather change is not that unusual, and pointed out that last year between Sept. 24 and 30, temperatures took a dive from their high and three of the month’s last mornings dawned with temperatures only in the high 30’s.
For the first 10 days of September Mr. Wingfield recorded only .55 inches of rainfall in this area. “In 1987, we recorded over five inches of rain the day before, Labor Day and the day after," he said, thumbing through his ledgers, showing rainfall for the 1987 Labor Day weekend measuring 5.48 inches. That year, the month of September measured more than 10 inches of rainfall.
Measuring last week’s rainy Thursday and the rainfall that fell over the weekend, Mr. Wingfield said water levels are looking much better around the county.
“We’ve now recorded 2.96 inches of rainfall this month,” he said, adding last Thursday’s rainfall accounted for most of the precipitation, with 2.10 inches falling in one day. “I measured .95 inches of rain before I put the coffee pot on,” he laughed.
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