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At long last, central Arkansas kids revel in real snow
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published February 9, 2010 at 11:08 a.m.
With apologies to those nursing crumpled fenders (or worse) as a result of the slippery, sleety, snowy precipitation, Wednesday’s Family section joins central Arkansas’ children in a hearty hooray for long-awaited snow days.
The wait has been long, as Kim Christ reports. About seven years, actually. John Robinson, National Weather Service meteorologist for 35 years, says the last appreciable snow before this week fell on the area in February 2003 when 5 inches came down over two days.
On Monday, central Arkansas got a taste of what children in northern Arkansas experience more often — snowball-packing, fort-building proper snow. The National Weather Service reported some 6 inches of snowfall in Little Rock. During a less generous snowfall nine days before, children made the best of a miserly blanket of icy pellets.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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