CONWAY — Is Mother Nature making up for lost time?
After two months of below-average snowfall, February is already shaping up to be the snowiest month of the season after Winter Storm Orlena dumped nearly a foot of snow on the Mount Washington Valley from Monday night into Tuesday afternoon. Along with the snow came gusts of more than 30 mph in the early hours of Tuesday.
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