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Show Ground Hog Right, Winter Around Until March 16 Drat the Ground Hog, he was right again. Last Feb. 2 he saw his shadow and promptly predicted pre-dicted that Old Man Winter would be around at least until March 16. He was so correct. Of course there was a respite re-spite fop a few days earlier this month. In fact, the afternoon after-noon temperature on March 12 reached 60 degrees. Six days later, la-ter, the p.m. reading had dropped drop-ped to 39 degrees. Rain mixed with snow began falling late Saturday night and continued all day Sunday and Sunday night. Monday morning there were about two inches on the ground and the snow was wet. Light snow continued to fall most of the day Monday and by 6 p.m. the total for the storm had reached almost a half-inch of pure water. It's peculiar how Mother Nature Na-ture has a way of doing things. Autumn snowstorms turn the grass brown, but early spring snowstorms turn the lawns green. Clouds were lifting in the east early Tuesday morning. The temperature was 30 degrees and the barometer stood at 30.10 and was rising. The worst of the current storm is over, said the forecasters, fore-casters, but it will get colder. Statistics for the week, ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, March 18, 1968. Date High Low Pre. March 12 ... 60 25 0.00 March 13 ... 55 41 0.04 March 14 ... 50 31 0.04 March 15 ... 59 25 0.00 March 16 ... 59 36 0.00 March 17 ... 51 32 0.33 March 18 ... 39 27 0.07 Summary Temperatures: Highest 60, lowest 25. Week's averages, high 53, low 31, and mean, 42 degrees. Precipitation for the week, 0.48 of an inch. Since Jan. 1, 4.75 inches. Sun rises and sets, locally, at 7:15 a.m. and 6:40 p.m. |
