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Spring has Sprung

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 15:20:00 GMT

The forsythia's are starting to bloom and more and more sunshine has been prevalent the past couple of days after last Friday's rainfall. Temperatures are expected to head off to the races. Saturday's temperatures in the mid 50's will warm today into the 60's and it will not stop there. Tomorrow and Tuesday should be the warmest days of this week with a prevailing SW wind that could last all the way through Thursday. Temperatures on Monday will have no problem g...
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A wet Easter...followed by April Fools

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:37:00 GMT

Happy Easter!! Hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine and mild temperatures in comparisons of where we should be this time of year. Though yesterday marked the 18th consecutive day without hitting 60F in the Cape Henlopen region, it certainly felt very nice compared to the wind rain and snow earlier in the week. Will this all continue? Well sort of. The next couple of days, there is opportunity to finally break the consecutive streak of number of days without hitti...
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Unseasonably Cold but Drier heading into April

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:56:00 GMT

As we head into the first week of April, typically average daytime high temperatures is about 60 degrees. The Cape Region has not endured 60 degree weather for over 2 weeks now and is very possible we will not hit 60 degrees until we get into April. At least there is some signs of warming and certainly a drier period. So far this month we are just shy of 5" of rain for the month of March. The next significant change of rain isn't until early next week. Enjoy th...
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More wintry weather expected heading into Easter

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:31:00 GMT

The Ground Hog predicted an early spring, meteorological spring arrived March 1st, and astronimical spring arrived March 21st. Tell that to ol' man winter. As of this post, temperatures have averaged 39F for the month of March. That is running 4 degrees below normal and if the trend continues the remaining week of March, we could be looking 5 or 6 degrees below normal before heading into April.

Additionally, its been a wet and in some cases a white mon...
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A wet, cold, and dreary period from March 16-19th. When is spring coming?

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:28:00 GMT

Enjoy the limited sunshine and temperatures in the low 50's now...A series of disturbances will impact the Delaware Beaches and inland communities of Sussex County the next 4-5 days. Rain chances will begin to increase tonight and remain through Wednesday with the best changes occurring Monday and Monday night where the potential of 1/2 to 1" of rain could fall on already saturated ground. So far the first half of March, many areas have received 3 inches of rain. ...
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