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It's Memorial Day and we have 45 degrees right now at 8:30 AM. We had a couple of sunny days and the largest potato farmer in the area is planting potatoes this morning. Their equipment is huge. Soil temps are low, but if they don't get those spuds into the ground it will freeze before they get the crop harvested. The longest day of the year is three weeks away and then the days begin to get shorter and these few months of poor sledding will be over and we'll be back on our snowmobiles. We are guaranteed only 130 days a year of frost free weather.
When I was a kid we often went swimming before Memorial Day and for sure we would go swimming on Memorial Day, even if it was chilly. In the last two years we have had the coldest first quarter of the year ever in Maine and the most snow ever in the first quarter. The officials in the federal government would call this "anecdotal". Ask a farmer what the trends are.
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