Record high temperatures for May were recorded in Burlington (95°) and Saint Johnsbury (92°). On the top of Mount Mansfield it hit 85°. That’s the warmest temperature ever recorded there, on any month, according to a National Weather Service tweet. Fact-check pending.

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Every green thing is fully leafed out now and so far very little has been eaten by insects or has been food for fungi. A short-lived lushness that’s almost tropical.
A perfect day for apple tree pruning. Not too cold, not too sunny, and just a little snow left.
The year of the toad? They seem to be everywhere, all sizes, and now trilling from ponds.
The berries of red baneberry are ripe, shiny, and bright. But they are named baneberry for a reason.
It seems impolite to mention it, but it’s not inexpensive to keep our fleet of little birdfeeder birds fed.
The per day change in day length is at a low around the solstices: it’s changed less than a minute per day since December 9th. Starting today, the increase in day length is more than a minute per day and it’s going to increase to about three minutes a day until we approach the summer solstice.
The hard-won snowless ground got a sprinkled coat of snow overnight. The juncos are easy to see now, but still too many to count.