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December’s temperatures according to the Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack should be average, but the month’s precipitation above average.
Weather watch: Fair, cool (1), then windy, flurries, colder (2,3). Expect rain or snow showers, cool (4-7); fair, cool (8-12), with rain or snow showers again (13-14). More heavy snow or rain (15-17) and rain or snow showers (18-21); turning fair, cold (22-24), fol- lowed by snow or rain (25-28). rThere should be windy days with flurries (29-3l)as we welcome the long-awaited Y2K, though the actual millennium .arrives next year.
Tornado watch: No activity of this nature is expected.
Full moon: The month’s Full Moon occurs the 3rd at 10:19 a.m. E.S.T. and could be known as the “Before Yule Full -Moon,” but with all the snow Expected might be better 'fcafied the “Cold Full Moon.” *» -• Special notes: Winter (arrives with the Winter Solstice ,on the 22 at 2:44 p.m. E.S.T. _ Remember and pay tribute to those who made the supreme r sacrifice at Pearl Harbor on the ,58th anniversary of that fatal ,day, Dec. 7, 1941. "i Holidays: Expect a “white” Christmas on the 25th, this year on a Saturday, a perfect time for gathering family together to observe the special day.
Observe the British and Canadian tradition of “Boxing -Day” on the 26th by remem- 1 be ring those giving service during the past year. » The garden: Prune hollies and evergreens judiciously serving two purposes at the 'same time: gathering greens for
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