sugar weather

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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spring weather, characterized by cold nights and warm days, that starts the sap running in maple trees and ushers in the sugaring season.

Quotations

1826

Have had no sugar-weather this week; frosty with strong winds, and some snow.

1851

In Upper Canada, from its proximity to the lakes probably, the sugar weather is more variable, and the crop less certain than in Lower Canada.

1903

. . . the inhabitants, taking advantage of the ideal sugar weather which had arrived, all began to "tap."

1942

When the March sun began to honeycomb the snow, and the sun was warm on the south side of the house, then came sugar-weather.