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Show March Weather Gets Colder in End of Month Coming in like a lamp, March of 19f6 bides fair to verify the old adage and go out like a lion; if Monday's wind storm of near-gale proportioos is an criterian. The loose dirt from the local sewer trenches and the tumble weeds from adjacent fence rows really had a field day. So far March cf 1956 has been one of the most arid on record, according ac-cording to the report of U. S. Weather Observer Calvin Walker. Precipitation up to Tuesday morning morn-ing has totaled enly .15 of an inch as compared to an all time March average of 1.5 inches. On the temperature side, the highest recorded was a 77 degree reading on the afternoon of March 24 and the low for the month was 10 degrees on the morning of the 12th. March of this year was quite comparable weather-wise to March 1955, Mr. Walker explained. Last year the total precipitation for the . month was .29 of an inch. The temperature readings last March were a high of 65 degrees on the 29th and a lew of 11 degrees on the 6th. |