CONWAY — Welcome to early March in the White Mountains, where it snows a few inches one night and then the sun comes out the next day, giving us all a dose of spring fever with welcomed springlike temps in the low 50s, like we all enjoyed this past Wednesday, making for a great Week 8 of Cranmore Mountain Meisters.
And, get ready, because Accuweather and other weather prognosticators are predicting daytime temps rising to the mid-50s on Sunday and even into the low 60s Monday and Tuesday before dropping back into the more seasonable 40s during the day on Wednesday.
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