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Blue_In_AK

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13. Alaska is having a very early spring.

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 06:45 PM

Apr 2016

We've broken temperature records here in Anchorage over the past couple of months. The trees are leafed out, and I have primroses blooming. This is at least two weeks early. I'm even contemplating getting my vegetable starts into the ground. Back in the old days when I first moved up here, the rule was don't plant until Memorial Day weekend, then gradually it got to the point where I could put my garden in mid-May, now here it is not even the first, and I'm ready. The rule now is when birch leaves are as big as a squirrel's ear, and they're already bigger than that.

Our very early spring may be related to El Niño, but I'm thinking there's more at play. Yesterday it was almost 70 degrees in Fairbanks.

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