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Show Cold Snap Again Lowers Hopes For Fruitgrowers Old Jack Frost just can't let bad enough alone. He made three mid-spring visits to the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove area during the weather weath-er week ending Monday, May 2. In fact, the calling card he left on May Day early Sunday morning' was decorated with a-bout a-bout a half-inch of ice. Specifically Specific-ally the official thermometer reg-istered reg-istered a crisp 29 degrees some time after midnight Sunday morning. mor-ning. Leo Harvey, local fruit farmer, said that a few apple blossoms, that were dormant during the previous frosts were open Saturday Sat-urday but were frozen Sunday morning. "It looks like a complete com-plete wipe-out," he said. Things were on the damp side most of the week with rain more or less falling on four of the seven days. The total was a little more than a quarter of an inch. Skis were overcast and gray Tuesday morning. Thing's outside were wet, since it had rained sporadically during the night with some thunder and lightning. light-ning. Weather prophets were pre-ditions pre-ditions including showers of rain in the valleys and snow above 7,000 feet. . Statistics for the week ending end-ing May 2, 1960. Date High Low Pre. April 26 59 31 0.00 April 27 56 37 0.11 April 28 50 35 0.08 April 29 58 36 0.07 April 30 60 30 O.OO May 1 67 29 0.00 May 2 68 42 trace Summary Highest temperature tempera-ture for the week, 68 degrees on May 2. Lowest 29 degrees on May 1. Precipitation for the week 0.26 of an inch. Total since January 1, 6.14 inches. Sun rises at 6:40 a.m. Sun sets at 7:20 p.m. |