While you may have enjoyed the early start to spring in Door and Kewaunee counties, orchard owners are being cautiously optimistic. Last Tuesday, Green Bay saw the warmest temperature on record for February 27th with 70 degrees, 11 degrees warmer than the previous mark set over 100 years ago. According to the National Weather Service, it was the warmest February by nearly two degrees in the last quarter century. Bill Roethle from Casco’s Hillside Apples says he is keeping a close eye on the weather now that many of his offseason duties, like pruning trees, are completed. He adds that as long as the weather stays away from being too hot or too cold, he feels pretty comfortable with where his trees are currently.

The weather will play nice with area orchard owners for the immediate future. No big snowfall totals are in the forecast, and the temperatures are not supposed to get much above 50 degrees.