The cool weather is back with high temperatures on Tuesday struggling in the 50s. Growing Degree Days are a long used metric with direct applications to plant development. The featured chart presents the 15 April to 13 May GDDs accumulations for each year since 1970. Four of the past five years have seen much below average accumulations This computation was done with a base temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit which means when the temperature is barely above this level, few units are accumulated.

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