HILLSBOROUGH, N.H.—Sugarmakers in the Northeast just had the biggest four day run in many years, but now the heat wave begins.

"It's been ripping," said sugarmaker Charlie Hunt, Jr. of Hunt's Family Maple in Hillsboro, N.H. "I haven't seen it this way in a long time."

The Hunt operation has boiled seven times so far this season, after only starting up two weeks ago.

Sugar content in the sap has been good. 2.2 percent said Charlie Hunt, Sr.

Down the road in Washington, N.H. the Atkins family was also busy this weekend, getting buried in sap Friday and Saturday.

"It's been a good steady run," Shawn Atkins told the Maple News on Saturday.

The farm was a popular stop on the Maple Open House Weekend tour in New Hampshire.

Over in Loudon, N.H. 9,000-tap sugarmaker Stefan Lillios was going strong too.

'This is our second full week," Lillios told the Maple News on Friday. ""It's been a slow start. There was so much snow in the ground the trees were not ready to thaw out just yet."

Down the road at Wind Swept Maples, Larry Moore and sons, Jeff, Brad and Sam had been very busy boiling.

'This is how sugaring used to be," Jeff Moore said. "A long winter. The hardest winter we can remember since 2015."

Still, the family started tapping on Jan. 1 and was ready for the sap when it came on March 1. Larry Moore said they had made 1,700 so far on 11,000 taps.

At the NHMPA tree tapping ceremony at Marty and Amy Boisvert farm in Pittsfield, N.H. they were expecting more than 2,000 visitors over the course of the weekend.

The event featured new state Governor Kelly Ayotte drilling the ceremonial first tree of the season on Friday.

"It's been a crazy season with the temperatures and the snow," Marty Boisvert said.

It took him almost two months to get all the trees drilled, solo and he got them in just in time.

He's made 300 gallons so far off of 3,000 taps on six boils.

In Massachusetts, sugarmaker Chip Williams of Williams Farm in Deerfield, Mass. said the syrup has been a darker grade most of the season.

"It's been dark," he told The Maple News on Saturday. "I have not made hardly any Amber."

On his 3,000 taps, Williams said he's made 400 gallons so far.

"We got a later start than usual," he said.

In Connecticut, it was much the same story. Lots of dark syrup and warm temperatures.

"It's been all dark syrup only so far," 1,500-tap sugarmaker Gordon Ridgway of Cornwall, Conn. told The Maple News on Saturday. "This has been a cold, traditional winter so you'd think it would be lighter syrup. But that hasn't been the case. We have made zero light syrup."

Many sugarmakers have their eye on the forecast for this week, expecting warm temperatures.

"We made most of our crop last week," said Nelson Martin of Penn Yan, N.Y. "Im thinking it might be a short season."

Temperatures across the Midwest and Northeast are expected to be warmer than average this week, with few freezing nights.

Forecasts keep changing however. The ten-day outlook shows colder temperatures for next week.