Is Spring Actually Here in the North Country?
It’s the first day of Spring, but a mix of winter weather and cooler temperatures this weekend are leaving North Country residents wanton for warmer weather.
Precipitation is heavy across the nation, causing severe flooding in the Midwest.
According to an Associated Press article, scientists have noted signs in nearly every state that global warming is affecting plants and animals at springtime across the country.
Satellites show that spring “green-up” is arriving eight hours earlier every year on average since 1982 north of the Mason-Dixon line (the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland).
Ornithologists have found that tree swallows in upstate New York are laying eggs nine days earlier than they did in springtime in the 1960s.
That means the babies often starve when cold snaps stop the insects from flying.
In Fredonia, wine grapes are hitting mid-bloom about one-and-a-half days earlier each decade.
Apple trees in Poughkeepsie and other New York towns like Geneva and Peru are blooming about two days earlier each decade.
Spring officially arrived shortly before 2 a.m. this morning, but when do you think it will actually take effect? Leave a comment below.
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well anyone who is from this area knows you never actually see sping until at least May. but look at the bright side at least we are on the downside of this cold weather.
Depends what you mean by spring. We moved here from Alaska in September. Never really saw any winter. Nice weather all around. And lots of sunlight.
Well, I know every year I am sick of waiting for spring to come, just because I am not a winter person, but it also seems there isn’t much of a spring either, it goes right into hot summer! Either its too cold, or its too hot, its not like that every year but the past few years it seems to be that way. I miss the actual mild spring weather we used to get.