First frost 31 degrees this morning. A Prilop pecan currently being shipped to my home so hopefully I can plant on Saturday
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It was frosty on the roofs last week, but not a killing frost.
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23F here this am.
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Yes a week ago we had a light frost on our car in the morning but not the ground
We had a couple of morning in the upper 20’s F last week but the apple trees I planted at the beginning of the month still have green leaves on them. the Maples and oaks have lost most of their leaves.
Yes, we used to have first frost pretty regularly around Halloween, give or take a few days. I think the last two years were a week into November. This year, the 10 day forecast doesn’t have a low below 37 through Nov 9th, though it’s always possible one of these nights will get colder than forecast.
I mentioned it to my mom and she said that when she was a kid the first frost was often in September. I’m still poking around online to see if I can find a first frost by year by zip (or a reasonably close weather station). So far, I’ve just found aggregate data (mixing 30 years, etc), but I’ll keep looking.
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We had a light frost on the roof tops this morning. Central AL
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I am in zone 6A and live in a valley with a stream. The fall frosts don’t bother me too much but in the spring. We usually get a frost in this valley in late April or some years even in early May. That really hurts a lot of my fruit production. I have only got one crop off my plum tree in 15 years. I am trying to find an apple to graft on my flowering crab apple that is good eating a late bloomer and harvests no later than mid October. I was thinking liberty because of disease resistance but some on here say they aren’t very flavorful.
No frost yet for me, but my Ambient weather WS 2000 is out of commission due to a broken Thermo-Hygrometer assembly. I got a replacement part and need to install it on the array over the weekend. I hate not having it up and running and gathering data.
We’ve had five frosts, but no snow on Halloween this year. Just rain.
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Sad! Moved to St. Remy de Provence yesterday! Come visit!
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We had a frost but some things escaped unscathed like a watermelon vine living on top of a compost heap (trying to ripen is probably an exercise in futility at this point) and a bunch of pepper plants, flowers, and vines in a protected area of my garden beds. Based on the forecast I might get at least two more weeks of frost-free growing. To what end, I’m not sure. I seeded some leafy greens and micro dwarf tomatoes for the greenhouse since it’s a balmy 55 degrees at night in there still. I’m going to start some herbs in there as well.
What is better there?
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Sun, food, wine, cheese and fruit trees!
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Here’s what I got, and could have easily taken it further with CHAT- Regionally, first freezes have been arriving later: across the Northeast, the first ≤ 32 °F freeze has shifted roughly ~10–12 days later since the 1970s,
CHAT can access info from specific weather stations, but I assume you consider that pretty obvious.
My low so far… 42F.
They are calling for 34F tonight… but they usually predict 3-5 degrees lower than it actually gets here.
If that 34F does happen… may have a light frost… there are no other days in my 10 day that are all that close to frosty.
TNHunter
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Tonights going down to 37 here
Next monday theyre predicting 35. Seems like frost woll be right on time around nov 10th
I woke up to frost on the rooftops this morning. The forecast was for 2, but it went to 0. It’s usually warmer here than they forecast, so I wasn’t expecting it. Its been too cold for any tender vegetables to grow anyway, but I still have a potted lemon with new growth and some geraniums outside. I didn’t see frost on any plants, but I guess we’ll see what happens when the sun hits it.
Had a couple of frosts last week; enough to kill tender regrowth of Johnson grass in the pastures, but not enough to nuke the crabgrass or tomatoes/peppers growing up against the south wall of the house.
Hit 32 last night…this will be the end of the growing season.
Dense fog just beginning to lift, as the sun is coming up.
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Our first hard freeze (30°) was 10/23, about ten days later than the usual. We’ve had one other since then. We picked the ripe peppers and tomatoes before the freeze, and made pickled peppers rings. Still need to mow down the bits of grass that’s sprouted up since the last mowing.
Last winter seemed to be the longest, coldest, snowiest one I’ve experienced since we’ve moved here 11 years ago. So I hope this year isn’t a repeat.