Penultimate 2024 Maple Season Report

For the last couple of days very little maple sap has been collected.  I still have over 3 gallons refrigerated but at a rate of over 2 gallons a day it won't be long until I run out of sap.

Also the sap has been getting cloudier which seems to result in darker syrup.

But the weather may change, recently the desired freeze / thaw cycle hasn't been happening.  In addition, very little rain or snow recently.  Last year the season went well into April:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/04/notes-on-2023-maple-syrup-season.html

The effort to monitor the distilled water output to gauge the syrup sugar percentage has been kinda hit and miss.  I have tried to standardize the sap input and check the water output but the breaker flip offs are very inconsistent.  Here is some recent boil data:

 

I'll keep going but probably getting close to the end ?

BTW I first heard the word: penultimate from listening to Bucks play-by-play announcer, Eddie Doucette - Eddie was probably the best thing about the Bucks before they drafted Kareem :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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