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Medford's Latest weather Unusual weather conditions have prevailed of late. The driving rain, hail and thunder storm of Wednesday (A. M.) March 18, and the brief snow storm of March 26, were marked features. At four in the latter afternoon the western sky assumed the strangest color, rivalling the yellow day of 1880, and soon large flakes of snow came. Within a few minutes it grew so dark, there was a general lighting up by everybody and many were deceived as to the hour, scarcely believing their trusted timepieces. But who can describe the matchless beauty of the scene as at sunset the clouds parted, or yet in the evening that followed! Possibly over an inch of snow had fallen, or rather come on the wings of a westerly wind. The writer, out on an errand to Hastings Heights, was impressed with the marvelous scene. Each street was like the long nave of some vast cathedral. All the trees were covered with an immaculate foliage even to their tiniest twigs; their great