Worm Moon! March weather predictions, frost dates

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Daily Newsletter for Thursday, March 1, 2018

snowy valley

The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies;
I hear the rushing of the blast
That through the snowy valley flies.

–William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
Thursday, March 1, 2018
 60th day of the year


George Eads (actor) was born on this day in 1967.
Bonnie Franklin (actress) died on this day in 2013.
 
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