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After a slow start to spring in Florida and parts of the Southern Great Plains, spring is spreading more quickly now across the country. Albuquerque, NM is a week early, St. Louis, MO is 2 weeks early, and parts of Washington, D.C. are 22 days early compared to a long-term average of 1991-2020.
Albuquerque is a week early? I live in Albuquerque and it has been below 35 degrees in the morning the last week and has not gotten over 65 degrees during the day. I think it is about on time, with a lot more moisture over the winter than we are used to. I never had to water any trees all winter. Maybe I am getting old but I think winter came early and lingered this year. Not to mention, which is usual, many weeds never died off in the winter, we didn't get many hard freezes either. The rose bushes never lost their leaves. How can anyone tell by the "leaf index" when spring arrives in Albuquerque?
Your area is definitely unique given where rest of the country is far ahead as reflected in the graph.
Let’s just hope global warming doesn’t accelerate too much faster or the country is going to have serious issues.
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Originally Posted by DesertRat56
Albuquerque is a week early? I live in Albuquerque and it has been below 35 degrees in the morning the last week and has not gotten over 65 degrees during the day. I think it is about on time, with a lot more moisture over the winter than we are used to. I never had to water any trees all winter. Maybe I am getting old but I think winter came early and lingered this year. Not to mention, which is usual, many weeds never died off in the winter, we didn't get many hard freezes either. The rose bushes never lost their leaves. How can anyone tell by the "leaf index" when spring arrives in Albuquerque?
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Here in the Seattle area the many flowering cherry trees usually peak in late March. This year they are already in full bloom, though we have had snow flurries every day for the last week. It's really odd to see snow when the temperature is 36-40F, but at least we can drive in it since it melts on the roads.
My GoldFlame Honeysuckle plants has started to leaf out. Half of my yard was planted with bermuda sod and the other half was seeded with fescue. I had to mow the fescue yesterday and the bermuda is starting to green up around the edges of my house. It has been very dry here, but there is two days of rain coming. The low temperature after the rain will be back down in the low 30's. It was 75 degrees around 2 PM and it is 55 degrees now.
After a slow start to spring in Florida and parts of the Southern Great Plains, spring is spreading more quickly now across the country. Albuquerque, NM is a week early, St. Louis, MO is 2 weeks early, and parts of Washington, D.C. are 22 days early compared to a long-term average of 1991-2020.
SPRING FIRST LEAF INDEX
SPRING FIRST BLOOM INDEX
Are things really already leafing out in the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic?
We are a good month ahead of the normal schedule here.
Probably needing to break out the lawnmower this weekend.
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Originally Posted by reubenray
My GoldFlame Honeysuckle plants has started to leaf out. Half of my yard was planted with bermuda sod and the other half was seeded with fescue. I had to mow the fescue yesterday and the bermuda is starting to green up around the edges of my house. It has been very dry here, but there is two days of rain coming. The low temperature after the rain will be back down in the low 30's. It was 75 degrees around 2 PM and it is 55 degrees now.
I'd be curious to see photos of what that looks like in the northern margins like the Ohio Valley and Kansas City. Are we talking about overstory trees leafing out? Or understory shrubbery? Around here, the understory shrubbery might leaf out around April 20-25, while the overstory trees only leaf out in May 15-25.
Oklahoma City area - my daffodils are almost gone.
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