Morel Maps

Morel Mushroom Maps

Generally speaking, the best time to begin looking for morels is when daytime highs in your area have been in the 60’s, with nighttime lows no colder than the 40’s.... and when there has been some precipitation. Here are maps and tips to help you identify when morel season is happening in your area:

Hot Tip - Using Twitter Advanced Search

On May 6, 2020, Edward Vielmetti posted an article on the AnnArbor blog about using twitter advanced search to to find tweets from other users in your area announcing morel finds. The advanced search tool lets you specify geographic location so you can find tweets within a few miles of where you are located. Now, no morel hunter in their right mind will tweet the exact location of their find, but the results will let you know what county they have picked their morels in, giving you a good sense of the season. Vielmetti gives the following example of results for a twitter search for morels within 100 miles of Ann Arbor:

* tvnewzguy: Some day I am going to hunt morels! RT @NorthGuide: Morels are up in Gaylord!!! --> RT @raysretreat Morel Season
* uclub: Featured at the UClub: Grilled Chicken with Braised Fennel Leeks and Morels Gnocchi Vegetable Medley.
* vielmetti: Pleasant Lane Farms brought morels to the Ypsi Downtown Farmers Market via @realtimefarms
* DElshoff: The rain this weekend really helped the morels! Get out and find some! For ideas and identification see North Country Morels

Soil Temperature and Precipitation Maps

Greencast has an online soil temperature map for the U.S. You can on map to zoom in and see the soil temperatures in your area or use the menu and select a region. You can even see soil temperature forecasts for the next five days.

USDA Crop Explorer Maps
Foreign and Regional web site - wide range of maps for weather and soil conditions. search by geographical locations globally
http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/

USDA Crop Explorer Maps USA only
http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/default.cfm?obj_name=imageview2.cfm&regionid=us

The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
Maps showing recent daily, monthly and 12 months calculated soil moisture, anomalies and percentiles 25-year average soil moisture & soil wetness.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/w.shtml

Fire Burn Maps

To find fire burn morels you will need these links to find where forest fires have occured:

National Interagency Fire Centre links to national firemaps:
http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/maps.htm

The Key Fire Links page by Natural Resources Canada has the best selection of links to all major fire map resources in North America:
http://fire.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/links_e.ph p

Progress Maps

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