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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
March came in like the “lion” and has passed like a “lamb,” leaving a “variety of weather” in her wake.
Local weather watcher Dennis Wingfield in Sperryville said March brought everything from snow, to snow and rain, to sleet, to sunshine, to rain aged-back again to snow and rain. “It’s been a mixed bag,” he said, adding his carefully compiled records show this month to be 2.2 degrees cooler than last March.
Besides that, March 1992 has rolled away leaving 1.03 inches less precipitation than March 1991.
Mr. Wingfield measured 5.30 inches of rainfall for this March and 6.33 inches of rainfall in 1991.
“We are still dry,” said extension agent, agriculture, Tommy Williams, adding streams are not “flowing like they should be.”
“If we hit another dry summer, like we did last year, we could be in bad shape,” he said.
He said while winter precipitation has been adequate for some winter crops, the constant wind drys whatever moisture quickly.
Mr. Williams said the winter months have been dry, leaving parts of the county that were striken with drought like conditions in the summer, in “bad shape.”
He said in Flint Hill and north, the county is still dry while the southern end, toward Woodville, an area that received more precipitation last summer, is in better shape. “It’s like the county is divided,” he said.
Mr. Wingfield said precipitation for the last three months has measured 10.71 inches compared to last year’s 11.64 inches for January - through-March.
And, while rainfall has been rare, snowfall has been rarer.
Mr. Wingfield said since the first day of winter, Dec. 21, the county has seen only eight inches of snowfall with one inch falling in March.
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