Early warming in March cut the maple syrup season in New Hampshire short.
Bodie Peters, President of the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association, said, "We had a mild winter with not a lot of snow in New Hampshire. At the start of the sugar season at my house, the ground wasn't even frozen and the snow wasn't even up to the tops of my boots."
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), at the Bow, N.H., snow reporting sight, there was only 0.50 of an inch of snow on the ground as of March 14, 2012.
The snow ground cover for the same date last year at Bow was 17.5-inches.
"Temperatures for the cities of Concord and Manchester, N.H., were 9 degrees above normal for the month of March", said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. "Temperatures across much of New England were between 8 and 12 degrees above normal."
The right weather is crucial for the maple trees to produce the sap used to make maple syrup.
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