{"id":2206,"date":"2026-02-12T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:40:28","slug":"the-weather-pattern-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Pattern Is Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After several weeks of 0 weather, the weather pattern is changing. 40\u2019s are forecast for the coming days. It looks like a long term pattern change, not a just a couple of days of warmer weather. We will put out a tap tomorrow to see what the trees are doing. With a light snow cover and weeks of 0 weather, the frost is deep and it may take time for the trees to wake up. In 2022 we had deep frost and even with ideal freeze\/thaw days, the sap didn\u2019t run until the frost came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The season would be several weeks early by the calendar, but we have to go by the weather pattern. In 2024 the season started the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During December we had two snowfalls of 8\u201d. But that melted over Christmas. Then second week of January cold weather arrived. We had several days of -10. We attended the Wisconsin Maple Syrup Institute in Marshfield, WI. Temperatures dropped to -25 in the central part of the state. Lake Michigan moderated the temperatures here, but we still had -10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of 0 weather, the weather pattern is changing. 40\u2019s are forecast for the coming days. It looks like a long term pattern change, not a just a couple of days of warmer weather. We will put out a tap tomorrow to see what the trees are doing. With a light snow cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}