AND, AT LONG LAST, suddenly … summer?
Ed Bergeron, local North Conway cooperative weather observer, reporting on Thursday’s “Morning Show,” said that North Conway reached a summerlike temperature of 89 degrees F Wednesday, while the high recorded by the Mount Washington Observatory crew was 53.1.
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