CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Dry weather over the past two months may have an impact on Christmas trees. Drought conditions have been persistent in recent weeks, causing unseasonal stress on the holiday staple. Christmas trees don't normally receive lots of rain this time of year, but the lack of wet weather this season has been drastically under average, causing trees to be drier than normal. 22News found that this abnormal weather trend has been impacting tree farms in western Massachusetts. Joshua Bailey with Squire Farm told 22News about his experience. "For us this year, it was mostly with new trees," says Bailey. "Trees that were established, trees harvested this year, they have a deep structure that didn't have too much effect on them. We didn't notice any significant browning or anything like that this year." Christmas trees typically take anywhere between 8 to 12 years to grow, so we're not likely to see major impacts on tree stock in the near future. Firs and Pines are affected more negatively by too much rain rather than too little rain. Local News Headlines Mass Clean Energy Week brought EVs to a Palmer racetrack DCR names new Indigenous Peoples partnership coordinator The American Cancer Society’s VOICES of Black Women study launched in Massachusetts Brushfire risk persists in Massachusetts WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.