30 overnight.  42 during the day.  Mostly cloudy until late afternoon when the sun appeared.  Then a cold northeast wind came up.

Checked the trees at Noon.  Good amount of sap in the buckets.  Trees dripped into late night before temperature dipped below freezing.  The sap run that started yesterday was coming to an end.  Tree pressure dropped to 4 PSI.  We started collecting an hour earlier at 2:00 PM.  We usually start at 3:00 PM.  By 4:30 we were done.  Picked up 475 gallons.

Based on sap volume collected so far, we are over half way of an average season.  Collected 1960 gallons of sap so far.  For an average season we would collect about 3200 gallons of sap.

Forecast for mid 20s tonight.  That’s a good for keeping the sap flowing.