May 7, 2018
Cold April delays some blooms, but now the spring show is on
Did historic cold weather affect early-blooming trees in April?
April definitely did not go out like a lamb this year. You probably didn’t put away your sweater until the end of the month, when temperatures finally hit 80 degrees.
Here at the Chicago Botanic Garden, we recorded our coldest April ever since we started recording temperatures in 1982. Our average high temperature in April was 48.1, which is 8.7 degrees below normal.
What did the cold weather…
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