long range cold ?

[Homestead Maple]

Used to have an old neighbor that said a thunderstorm during sugaring, meant 3 weeks to follow with no sap due to cold weather. We had a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. I hope he's wrong, but the time I heard him say that which was probably about 25 years ago, it stayed below freezing for close to 3 weeks and some days never got much above zero. We had tapped the 3rd week of February and made syrup that week, had the storm and didn't run for almost three weeks. Then broke loose and went on to have a record year. So don't loose hope yet. Long way to go until spring.

The latest I have made syrup is April 22nd. I could be May this year!!

[red maples]

Boy I hope so the long range forecast looks pretty good starting the beginning of next week... straight into April!!! Good snow pack hopefully it will last!!! fingers crossed.