spring weather!

[fordson major]

boy, spring started off wet and cold here! last couple of weeks have been sunny and getting warmer with no precip, perfect for us! not very many song birds yet though, that has me wondering if we are due a late frost! with so many acres going too corn here, (70 percent of the field we are spreading are hay going too corn!) that may be a disaster. hope every one gets lots of sun and "enough " rain!

[kitaye]

Sorry Ford, but on our end of Ontario it has been extremely warm, dry, and windy. Thankfully our lot has some tree cover or we would be having our own little dust bowl here. As it is, the garden soil is drying up and blowing away before the seeds have had a chance to sprout. I'm terribly afraid of summer this year.

[Up North]

Dry as a bone in Northern WI. Nary a sprinkle in 17 days. Scraping barnyards and hauling manure to take advantage of dry ground. Nice clean cows
-no mud. Downside is cows are covering lotsa acres and doing fast rotations to keep them in grass.

We need rain .

[MaggieJ]

Major Ford, the songbirds have arrived here in Prince Edward County and are feeding up before going further inland. We had the lovely sunny weather but today we are getting light rain... not really enough, but better than nothing. Our land is very low-lying so it stays wet a long time in spring... but even it is getting dry now. So I'm hoping for a good shower before it clears again tonight.

[oldgaredneck]

Hot and dry here in Georgia too - along with a partial water ban unless you're on a well (gotta find the $ to get an existing well going with a pump and tank!)

[moonwolf]

We've had a basically 'normal' spring for temps so far. Moisture ground levels are low due to the drought conditions for months now, but a good rain soaking last weekened helped green up things. Windy here too, which isn't too good for the forest fire hazards, so we keep hoping for rain at least weekly. Been warm for about a week now with night temps warm also. The ticks are pletiful, though the 'big' mosquito hatch is probably just days away, especially if we get weekend rain as forecast. Most of the native wild bushes like serviceberries, saskatoons, plum, chokecherry just began blossoming in the last day or so. The crabapple trees are just showing buds now that should blossom in a few days. Lilacs probably a week away before any signs of flowering. Then for sure it's spring and the crappies usually are in spawning mode, the suckers and walleye do their spawn runs, etc.
I see a week away, the forecast is for night frost, but that's the norm up here in N.W. Ontario also, as the last frost date isn't until first week of June probably after the full moon passes in June.

[Cabin Fever]

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area is on fire, I suppose that tells you how dry it is in Northern Minnesota.

[MaineFarmMom]

The fire danger here is high but we might get some rain tomorrow. Today's high was 89°.

[fordson major]

well, hope every one that needs the rain is getting some today! finally got the rain they have been threatening us with here, nice and gentle, just enough too stop field op's! still kinda cold here at night but some song birds out now (been traveling 60 miles a day north and east too). should wrap up spring custom work by friday if the weather turns back sunny, then lots of farm work here. over all been a very tiring and trying spring though! hope too get the garden in on the 24 weekend and the sheep out too graze.