Yesterday’s high temp was 67 at the local weather station … with a cool breeze from time to time … Moving into planting time, temps are expected to rise … Average high and low for April is 75 and 52, rainfall in the 3 to 4 inch range, up slightly from March average of high near 67 and low near 45…
Sunny with a high near 76 today … a slight breeze in the 7 mph range this afternoon. Mostly clear tonight with a low around 53 … Tomorrow (Tuesday), mostly cloudy with a high near 78 … windy, gusts as high as 16 mph.
Hopefully, little or no interference with the eclipse viewing in our area…
Next best chance for rain is Thursday and Thursday night … 80% range…
South Carolina women’s basketball team … National champs. They defeated Iowa 87-75 … Most viewers ever for the entire tournament…
Men’s action tonight … UConn vs Purdue for national championship … Game Time is 9:20 p.m. Eastern Time on TBS. Men’s and ladies teams have generated a great deal of interest…
Men’s 2024 Texas Open golf match was exciting. Akshay Bharia won in a playoff with Denny McCarthy. The young lefty qualified for the 2024 Masters upcoming in Augusta … McCarthy finished the final round with a string of birdies, but hit his second shot in the water in the playoff.
NASCAR at Martinsville … William Byron survived an overtime finish to get his third win of 2024.
Local sports … high school and lower grades … underway in our area … fun times…
One more note … An Oregon player won the recent $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot … Can you imagine? Ticket was sold in Portland.
“If everything is coming your way, then you’re likely in the wrong lane.”
“I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.”
“According to my recollection, I don’t remember.”
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