Intertidal: A nature journal is a great way to chronicle Maine’s unpredictable spring
By Susan OlcottIntertidal
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I am writing this a week or so before April 1, so I cannot predict what the weather will be like, only that it will be unpredictable. As we basked in the sun last week, finding shoots emerging from ground freshly exposed by melting ice, it certainly felt like spring had not just officially begun, but that the season had actually turned.
But, I remember many times on April 1 when Maine’s weather played the best prank by taunting us with warm sunshine-soaked afternoons only to then dump a pile of snow over the tips of shivering crocus. You are only made an April fool if you don’t, to some degree, expect this.