While we’ve seen an early spring here in the Southeast, you may be wondering what is happening in other parts of the world.  The Guardian posted a story this week that indicates the signs of an early spring have reached as far north as the coast of Greenland, where a variety of sedge is blooming 26 days earlier than it did a decade ago.  They note that “the pattern is not consistent: grey willow sticks to its original timetable, and dwarf birch growth has advanced about five days earlier for each decade. But the sedge, almost four weeks ahead of its timetable in a decade, holds the record, according to a study that observed one plot at a field site in west Greenland, 150 miles inland, for 12 years.”  You can read more at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/01/northern-hemisphere-sees-in-early-spring-due-global-warming.

Arctic cotton grass grows on Greenland’s seashore. Sedge is almost four weeks ahead of its timetable 10 years ago. Photograph: Pearl Bucknall/Alamy