Second Day of Record-Breaking Temps Have NYC Beginning to Feel - and Look - Like Spring

It's another day of record warmth, with temperatures soaring into the mid-70s by noon, and as NY1's Roger Clark reports, it not only feels like spring, it's beginning to look like it, too.

These crocuses are real early birds making an early appearance at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

"Definitely, the warm spring temperatures are bringing things into bloom, and we're definitely several weeks earlier on some things blooming than we were last year," said Melanie Sifton, vice president of horticulture and facilities at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

So there's plenty of witch hazel, hellebores and even daffodils in bloom, even as many of their fellow plants here are still waiting to bust out in colors.

With record-warm temperatures like this, Sifton says we could be seeing more early arrivals.

"I guess if this warm weather keeps up, it's possible that we can start to get even more coming into bloom soon," Sifton said.

The last time we visited the garden was in December, when a stretch of spring-like weather confused some plants into flowering. But that isn't expected to throw things off schedule here too much.

"At this point, we have not seen anything much being negatively impacted, so we are still on track for a great spring bloom display, that's for sure," Sifton said.

All this beautiful weather may inspire you to want to do some gardening yourself. Well, you're in luck. There's an event here on Saturday that will help you out with that.

"It's a free community horticulture event, and we've got free workshops and great speakers and a lot of networking going on for gardeners throughout Brooklyn and New York City who want to come together and figure out how to garden in the city," Sifton said.

You may not want to start planting everything just yet, though.

"You would not want to plant annuals or tender plants that wouldn't survive a potential freeze because you can still get nighttime and even daytime freezing temperatures into May," Sifton said.

Though that's hard to think about on days like this.

For more information, visit bbg.org.