jpak
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Sun Mar-21-10 09:51 AM
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On the last day of winter in Maine, I finished SPRING cleanup & watched the lake ice go out |
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Edited on Sun Mar-21-10 10:03 AM by jpak
We has record high temperatures yesterday - 67 degrees (old record 58). I could actually see the ice melting and the ice edge retreating across the lake. It melted over a half mile in the PM.
I saw a wood duck land on the newly ice-free lake, heard a catbird and had a woodcock singing in the field Friday night.
As I raked, there was already green grass under the leaf pack and the irises are up.
In years past, in lat March, I would be skiing down to the Camp with a roof-rake to get the 3 1/2 feet snow off the roof before the spring rains. The snow would be deep enough to cover the picnic tables and the stone walls. We'd be busy making maple syrup - but the sugaring season began in mid-February this year and ended already.
When I was a kid we had to "post-hole" through hip-deep snow to find the one pool in the brook that was ice-free on Opening Day of fishing season.
Not so this year - the brooks are ice-free and the snow on the banks has gone - even in the deepest ravines.
All this is MONTH and HALF earlier than normal.
global warming is real
deniers suck
the end
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WhiteTara
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Sun Mar-21-10 10:06 AM
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1. well, I'm in the upper south |
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and we have 8" of snow on the roof of the car and it is coming down in blizzard fashion!
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Sun Mar-21-10 10:36 AM
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5. It will be gone by Wednesday |
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:31 AM
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Sun Mar-21-10 10:27 AM
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2. Yep, I'm pretty sure this beats Spring 1990. (the year of the "endless summer") |
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As I recall, the weather then was only a month early at the most.
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Sun Mar-21-10 10:35 AM
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4. My brother had a mosquito bite yesterday in S. Maine |
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Sun Mar-21-10 10:29 AM
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3. Also, there hasn't been snow worth shovelling since late JANUARY. |
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:34 AM
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7. I'm getting wasps here in Colorado. The recent cold snap may have killed some of them off... |
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...but I expect by weeks end they'll be back. There will be a few more cold snaps here, but we're looking at highs of 70s tomorrow. On the first week of spring.
In Colorado.
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