How about the 4:30 senior salad bars?
YeahâŚCalifornia has a monopoly on nice weather.
My kids eat supper around 4pm every day.
I like the 4 seasons (and Frankie Valli too)âŚby late August iâm ready for cooler weatherâŚi donât mind sunny winter daysâŚitâs just the long stretches of cloudiness and 20Fs/30Fs that get a little old (December).
I was looking at the obs out of Cancun the other dayâŚi noticed a dewpoint of 79F down there (must have been some tropical moisture coming up from the south)âŚthat is an amazingly high dew pointâŚaround here we rarely see anything over about 75F in summer.
I hate the cold, but I will never leave MI. The Great Lakes is in my blood, and no getting it out. I may leave a few months in the winter, maybe not. Most years you can grow a lot of stuff. Now this time is a tough time, but Iâm not going to lose everything.
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Well, just when I thought this junk was over with, we now have a
frost advisory for wednesday morning, and all of my trees have either
set fruit or are in post bloom, plus we have a possible freeze warning
for saturday night, and IâM IN THE SOUTH. I just sprayed KDL again
and sure hope this stuffs works.
Last year I got 24 degrees after petal fall for everything and still got a bumper crop, as crazy as that may seem (maybe it was a degree higher up in the trees or radiant heat did the trick). Frost almost always occurs here with temps at least down to the high twenties well after petal fall- it is when it gets under about 25 that I believe you have reason to worry.
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MI and then east to NYâŚfrom this afternoonâŚ
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My granddad owned an apple orchard near grand junction in the early 1950âs. I think it is still there but I donât remember the name any more. My grandmother lived in cederedge CO when I was a kid and she would buy fruit at the orchards and can it. Cinnamon apples, pears, peaches and sweet cherries. When we would visit she would open a a quart of fruit for desert.
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Ray, unless youâre in a cold pocket, I expect that tonight probably wonât be damaging to your stone fruits, or to whatever might be blooming now if the temperatures are in the 36^-38^ range that Iâve been pulling up. Tonightâs frost advisory is for the normally colder areas. The fruits Iâm most concerned about being affected tonight are the breba figs, because they are close to mature size and the Black Mission fruit is starting to show color change. I donât know how they will react to the chill, even with no frost or freeze.
I may be whistling a different tune on Saturday, when itâs expected to push the record of 30^, but donât expect noticeable damage tonight.
Just set up a tent in Fruita, Utah (Capitol Reef National Park)
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Tony and a few others better keep an eye on this second cold blastâŚEuro seems stronger with it this runâŚ
I was there in Fruita a couple years ago at the end of the season. A kind man managed to get me an apple from the few remaining high in the treetops. It was one of the tastiest apples I have ever eaten. I wish I knew what variety if was.
Alan, last year I had 25 after petal fall and lost everything.
Dianna, I sprayed my figs too, so weâll see what happens. Iâm
also spraying again saturday.
Ugh!! They are forecasting a low of 27-24 for this Friday night here in central Iowa. My sweet cherries are stating to show white and I have one peach and a couple plums that will probably be in full bloom by Friday. Looks like I will go buy some tarps and lights and hope for the best!
There are a lot of variables in play (variable thermometers?)- I certainly expected to lose everything. The temps in the tree branches certainly could have been a bit higher and the trees are surrounded by huge boulders, so who knows how that might affect radiated heat? My trees at least donât have turf under them which pretty much stops heat from radiating from the ground, I think.
Good newsâŚafter NEXT weeks quick glancing cold shotâŚthe GFS hints at spring. Weâll see.
Saying 24F here Sat mornâŚnothing showing white now because we canât seem to get out of the 30Fs or 40Fs⌠My cherries are still pretty tight. Everything is going to bloom at once. Iâm unsure what to do with the apricots because they are swelling, but not popcorn.
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So here is a question for you guys⌠C7/9âs alone? or couple that with a tarp?
Pair the lights with a tarp to trap the heat.
Huh⌠the local weather station here looks to be using the GEM results to make their forecast because they are saying 20 F on Saturday (4/9) but the NAM, GFS, and CFS are all putting us in the 27 F range.
The issue for me will be whether I can put a tarp on my plums that are showing white on Friday night with the wind supposed to be still blowing at dark. 
I put tarps on last week and just left them on for a week. Do it during the day. I donât have any plastic tarps here, and too lazy to buy them so I used my high grade canvas paint tarps. They broke a few branch tips, but they are heavy and keep the heat in extremely well. I used twine to tie them around the bottom. It looks like the cold is drifting east, fine with me! Temps keep adjusting up.
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