The Nation - News from April 25, 1986
Spring returned in all its glory to the eastern half of the nation with sunny skies and balmy temperatures, chasing away a freak spring storm that brought up to two feet of snow and three days of record cold. Warm air pushed out to sea a frigid air mass that broke record lows from Wisconsin to Florida and damaged millions of dollars worth of fruit crops. Temperatures climbed into the 60s and 70s from the Midwest to the East Coast.
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