Influence of Soil Temperature on Corn Germination and Growth. We experienced June-like temperatures in March. Trees budded, spring flowers bloomed and fertilizer rigs crisscrossed fields. Soil temperatures matched what we normally experience in late April and early May, jumping well ahead of previous records.
An algal bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae (typically microscopic) in a water system.
bloom (third-person singular simple present blooms, present participle blooming, simple past and past participle bloomed) ( 1 transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish. ( 2 transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. ( 3 intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.