I visited the pond at my mothers house this weekend and noticed lots of mats of FA floating already. We have only had a few days over 50F and only a couple weeks removed from ice on the pond. I have noticed this on a few other local ponds and I don't remember having this much floating FA (if any) so early in the year before. Could this be because of the very dry year we had in this area last year? I was thinking that maybe it has a higher nutrient load as we didn't get as much flow through last year. The pond is full now and over flowed a few times since last fall. Is it typical to see more algae growth the year after a unusually dry summer?
