This Atlanta spring has been like no other year, nor have we ever experienced an average spring. Yet, I want a rough guide to plan my spring beeyard tasks. At the moment, hives are in a winter configuration with bee cozy hive wraps and bradford pear and redbud trees blooming.
On February 21st, Atlanta pollen count exceeded 1000 which coincided with a Growing Degree Days (GDD) of 90. I'll use GDD equal to 90 and compare this spring with previous years. I calculated GDD using data from the University of Georgia Automated Weather Network. I'll also use Julian Day which converts a MMM-DD-YYYY date format which spans 4 months (January to April) into a seamless day of year format.
In the graph notice:
On February 21st, Atlanta pollen count exceeded 1000 which coincided with a Growing Degree Days (GDD) of 90. I'll use GDD equal to 90 and compare this spring with previous years. I calculated GDD using data from the University of Georgia Automated Weather Network. I'll also use Julian Day which converts a MMM-DD-YYYY date format which spans 4 months (January to April) into a seamless day of year format.
In the graph notice:
- similar Day of Year values between this year and 2018
- warm 2017 outlier which reached a GDD equal to 90 on January 19
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