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By Gerald Ochs „
Rappahannock News WnljM' .
Though a balanced mix of indoor activity and outdoor travail tends to acclimate the body to the rigors of winter, too early an acclimation tends to evoke, precipitously, thoughts of newly budding trees and temperatures in the sixties.
Difficult as it might be, we must retard such thoughts, for east of the Rockies we have been smacked with subnormal temperatures and deep winter-like precipitation, and Rappahannock has not been spared.
Climatological tables indicate that we should be basking in afternoon temperatures nearly fifteen degrees warmer than we've experienced to this point, and those two cords of wood that have been burned so far should only be one-quarter gone. At this time of year, the normal high temperature is about forty-four degrees, and the normal low is in the upper twenties, so we’ve been hit pretty hard with highs lately only breaking thirty, if we re lucky, and lows in the chilling teens.
Typically, temperatures don’t bottom out before the end of January, but the average lows at that time are
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