I’m more intrigued by the purple zones. 7-14 days late. I live a couple of hundred kilometers north of that big “late zone” next to Canada.
Springs don’t feel particularly late to me, although I also don’t have any real data. Farmers seem to be in the fields earlier than they used to, leading to harvest starting earlier than it used to. Gardeners don’t always wait for the end of May to plant the way they used to.
On the other hand, my record of pellet consumption (we heat using a pellet stove) shows our heating season getting longer. I just assumed that that was because we’re getting less tolerant of a chill in the air as we age.
I’m more intrigued by the purple zones. 7-14 days late. I live a couple of hundred kilometers north of that big “late zone” next to Canada.
Springs don’t feel particularly late to me, although I also don’t have any real data. Farmers seem to be in the fields earlier than they used to, leading to harvest starting earlier than it used to. Gardeners don’t always wait for the end of May to plant the way they used to.
On the other hand, my record of pellet consumption (we heat using a pellet stove) shows our heating season getting longer. I just assumed that that was because we’re getting less tolerant of a chill in the air as we age.