Jason Forbes and Robert H. Stymeist
Weather
March started out unusually cold. Boston reached a high temperature of 30 degrees on March 2, and the mercury dropped to 12 degrees on the morning of March 3. However, March ended up being the first month in Boston with an above average temperature—42.3 degrees—since November 2024. The high temperature was 69 degrees on March 16. There were 14 days of precipitation. Boston recorded 3.87 inches, with nearly half that amount—1.78 inches—falling on March 17. The last weekend brought some icing to the hill towns of central Massachusetts and in Berkshire County.
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER BY NEIL DOWLING
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