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sugar weather

spring weather, characterized by cold nights and warm days, that starts the sap running in maple trees and ushers in the sugaring season.
See also: sap weather sugaring season
- 1826 (1916) 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.