March ends without a single snowflake falling all month.\u00a0\u00a0 Normally we would get about 9\u201d of snow during the month.\u00a0 This is the first month without snow since weather records were kept.\u00a0 While unusual, we wonder if it foreshadows what may happen in the\u00a0 future with climate change.\u00a0 The warm weather during the month was difficult for sugar makers.\u00a0\u00a0 This is an El Nino year so that would account for\u00a0 some of the warmer weather.\u00a0 But if all El Nino years become this warm maple syrup could become an even more challenging crop because of the unique weather pattern we need.<\/p>\n
We got all the buckets and covers brought in from the woods.\u00a0\u00a0 They are all stored away now until next season.\u00a0\u00a0 We also worked on the remaining sap in the evaporator.\u00a0 We got all the sap out of the flue pan.\u00a0 We replaced it with water and cleaning solution then we started a fire to both heat the water and cleaning solution and boil down the remaining sap.\u00a0 Tomorrow we hope to finish all off and bottle the remaining sap and get final production totals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We also filled the collecting tank with water so we have water for cleanup. \u00a0<\/p>\n
It was up to about 55 today.\u00a0 Tonight it will only go down to the 40s.\u00a0 Tomorrow is forecast to be even\u00a0 warmer, in the 70s.\u00a0 The normal for this time of year is 47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
March ends without a single snowflake falling all month.\u00a0\u00a0 Normally we would get about 9\u201d of snow during the month.\u00a0 This is the first month without snow since weather records were kept.\u00a0 While unusual, we wonder if it foreshadows what may happen in the\u00a0 future with climate change.\u00a0 The warm weather during the month was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-season-93"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}