Days of bright sunshine drying fields for cultivation
Warm spring days combined with the cool Atlantic – now sitting at about 51 degrees – often bring fog to pine forests along the coast in Cape Henlopen State Park. DENNIS FORNEY PHOTO
Dennis Forney April 9, 2021
Observations: The last week of March brought typical coastal whipsaw weather. High that week was 86 degrees. Low was 34. On the whole, warmer than average. Average temperature for the last week in March in Sussex County is 47 degrees. This year the average was 62 degrees.
Rainfall? Amazingly average in March but still wet overall for 2021. According to AccuWeather statistics, March brought us a total of 4.35 inches of rain. Normal for March is 4.36 inches. For the year, though, we’re about two inches of rain above normal. Call that February. So far in Sussex we’ve felt 13.13 inches of rain compared to the normal average of 10.99 inches at this point of the year.
Walking Distance to Historic Milton
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Upstate trout season opens March 28-29
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