The Grass is Green and Growing In Certain Areas...Three and Half Miles..North of Chicago.

[Stuart G]

I just came in from a walk. In certain areas around where I live, the grass is green and growing. I live in a suburb that is three and a half miles north of Chicago.
Generally, I usually see this in mid to late April.

This year, it is late March.

I have never seen this before this early in the year.

I wonder who else around the country has this odd climate change?
While it is only a few weeks early, to me this is significant.

[BurtWorm]

1. The goose flies at midnight.

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[mucifer]

2. you might be forgetting that here in Chicago we sometimes get huge snow storms

in April. I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just saying I'm a Chicagoan who knows that our weather is damn weird. I got very bored with San Francisco's predictable weather when I lived there for 6 years.

[FredStembottom]

3. Here in Minneapolis....

...it is all just as early. Also we hope for a break in something like a 9 year drought trend.

Certain flora are disappearing (permanently?) as we seem to transition into Nebraska or some other semi-desert area.

I am just waiting for the first reports of rattle-snakes! Seriously.

[Sal Minella]

4. Temps are twenty degrees higher than normal here (NW Iowa)

and are predicted to continue so for several days to come, but I know climate change is a hoax because I saw snowflakes during the winter.

[nemo137]

5. In North Central Illinois, we've been yo-yoing

DeKalb's looking a little greener than it did two weeks ago, but that's not saying much, since it was snowy and freezing in Rockford last week.

[Stuart G]

16. I walked again today...It was perfect late spring weather..78 degrees

light southern breeze..jperfectly clear...kinda like Mid May, not last day in March. We will have a couple more days like this to come..warmer tomorrow.. By the end of the week, the grass will be completely green. That bright spring color that we all like.

We have had days like this before in March. One day, then thunder showers, then back to the cold. Not three days in a row like we will have. This is very strange weather for this climate.

[louis-t]

6. The car dealership at the end of my street

has their lawn sprayed green every year in mid-March. I finally saw them doing it this year.

[rwork]

7. 80's

here in Oklahoma next 3 days. We had a 12"snow here 8 days ago.

[hedgehog]

8. Same here in Fulton, New York. More typically, we'd be digging out

from a four foot St. Patrick's Day snow storm. Our frost date is (used to be?) May 15 and several years ago we had a wet snow on Mother's Day, but I think this year we've seen the last of the snow.

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[piratefish08]

9. i live in southern NH and seeded/fertilized my lawn 10 days ago. very early.

[damntexdem]

10. Yes, and in my yard, the weeds are coming along nicely.

Nice and green, and getting taller.

Oh, no! Time for the mower!

[elocs]

11. I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and I thought the grass would be green soon.

Here where I live, La Crosse, Wisconsin on the Mississippi, we will have our first snowless March since they starting keeping records in 1885. The last snow we had here was just a trace in the third week in February.

Where are the climate deniers now, the ones who like to cleverly chime in about "well where is global warming" when we have a cool month that is ordinarily warm?

[Denninmi]

12. Same here in the Detroit area.

I saw a whole bunch of daffodils blooming on a southern exposure slope the other day -- WAY too early.

It was the mildest winter here in many years. So mild, in fact, something I've never observed here before happened -- many shrubs, like privets, cotoneasters, Magnolia virginiana, bayberry, which are ordinarily all deciduous and lose their leaves in late autumn, didn't. They look strange with last year's leaves still on them and green.

[Mojeoux]

17. Former Detroit Native Here

My brother and I heard that the Rouge River doesn't freeze enough to skate and play hockey on anymore. Is this true?

[WeDidIt]

13. 78 degrees forecast for tomorrow

40 miles West of Chicago.

[Subdivisions]

14. Trees are budding here and dogwoods already have flowers. But I

have no idea if the timing is normal or early or what. Perhaps some long-time gardener from North Texas can chime in here.

[Stuart G]

15. Let's say the climate is just 10 percent warmer..if so..we are in ...

deep, deep shit..
.but we will know in a few years...if this repeats again and again....and again.. by the...too late...

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[Joe the Revelator]

18. El Nino....things are much cooler this year down here in Georgia

Pretty standard for an El Nino year.

[cherokeeprogressive]

19. Here in So. Cal, it started snowing at about 3:30 p.m. and is forecast to snow on and off

throughout the night. I have lived up here for four years and this is the first time (except for Memorial Day two years ago when we had a veritable blizzard) it has snowed on April 1st.

Strange indeed.

[Catshrink]

20. Spring in Chicagoland is glorious!

I miss that feeling I had when seeing the crocuses poke their heads out of the ground, the hyacinths, the daffodils. Then the cherry blossoms...I miss that, but not the howling winds, icy dams, and snow.

[Zoeisright]

21. The grass is green in Minnesota too.

And things are coming up in the garden. In March. I have NEVER seen this before and I've lived here all my life, more than 50 years.