# Early harbingers of spring where you live **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592 "2014-01-12T17:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/61 "2014-02-26T02:56:59Z")
Here in Chicago, we should be breaking records again on Friday. Could be as much as -20 degrees, according to NPR. Spring will never come. I’m so depressed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/62 "2014-02-26T12:06:03Z")
> [@Hollow\_mask](#): > > It will take a while to get the hang of this place. You’re doing fine.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/63 "2014-02-26T13:32:08Z")
Around here, we have a frog pond. It gets iced over during the winter, but almost dead on Lupercalia (13-15 Feb) all of a sudden we can hear the frogs mating in the pond. We call it ‘frog-fest’ around these parts and it is always a welcome reminder that Spring is actually coming. This has been a long and harsh Winter, and I am looking forward to Spring. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/64 "2014-02-26T15:49:10Z")
We seem to be having an early spring in the UK, after all our normal cold decided to holiday the other side of the pond. My neighbour’s calendula are still alive, despite being outside all winter, and now the snowdrops, crocus and daffodils are all out together; last year there was over a month gap! I hope we don’t have a late, heavy frost, or we’ll lose a lot of blossom and subsequent fruit now. ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/65 "2014-02-26T15:53:46Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > It’s been such a warm, dry winter so far, I don’t know about you, but my winter has been regular subzero tempertures and constant snowstorms. Yeah, “warm and dry”, I wish. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/66 "2014-02-26T15:54:42Z")
The baseball players showed up last week and we are in the height of snowbird season. Definitely a sign of spring. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/67 "2014-02-26T16:27:22Z")
The annual pine tree orgy is picking up steam. Spring is just around the corner in south Georgia USA! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/68 "2014-02-26T16:54:55Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The state flower, the [California Poppy](http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/California/CAstateflower.html), starts bursting forth at all sorts of random locations, like highway meridians. Usually mid-February, so one of the earlier harbingers. I love 'em. > > And flowering ornamental fruit trees, like cherries, go crazy in February. Pffft. I’m not sure you can have harbingers of spring if your winter equals a heavy frost and (except for this year) some rainy weather 🙂 The maple trees were running sap here last week, but with the latest influx of below freezing temperatures, the spigot has been turned off. Looks like we don’t break 32 degrees again until mid-next-week. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/69 "2014-03-01T05:01:15Z")
We don’t have spring in New Hampshire. It snows through April, then it’s muddy a few weeks and all the grass is dead still and trees bare, then it’s suddenly summer. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/70 "2014-03-01T16:11:43Z")
The witch hazel has started to bloom, and I saw a robin yesterday. They’re predicting 6-10" of snow Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/71 "2014-03-01T18:13:11Z")
Thank Og spring is here. It’s only -22°F at noon. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/72 "2014-03-05T23:52:57Z")
Hows that Spring weather coming? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/73 "2014-03-06T00:18:01Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Pffft. I’m not sure you can have harbingers of spring if your winter equals a heavy frost and (except for this year) some rainy weather :-). Well, yeah. It’s all relative…being sick of winter around here, for me, is “dammit…I’m sick of having to run the heat for an hour in the morning. And it gets darn chilly riding my motorcycle to work when it’s under 50 degrees!” ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/74 "2014-03-06T03:49:41Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Hows that Spring weather coming? The low temps are now above 0F in Saint Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Mattie\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mattie\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mattie_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592/75 "2014-03-06T20:33:43Z")
Red winged blackbirds and mud. Both are starting to show up in my yard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-harbingers-of-spring-where-you-live/678592.md?page=3)