It’s comin. Heaviest amounts should be south of Aroostook though. The more southern meso models are winning this battle.
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It’s probably best to not make it political. I think most on both sides appreciate NOAA and the NWS. I didn’t see the previous forecast up there from CAR or if there was a discrepancy between products, but I’m still seeing a couple of inches up there on the snow forecast map. There’s definitely been staffing issues from the cuts that they’ll need to adjust to. Gray, ME and Albany had to cut balloon launches due to staffing issues too.
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I went to bed about 10:30 last night, and it was 34, clear and no wind. Usually that meant by the time the sun comes up the temp usually would drop another 8-10 degrees, which obviously would be bad.
Forecast was 28, which we usually undercut by several degrees, but when I got up at 6:00, it was exactly 28 to my surprise. It might drop by another degree before sunrise, but I’m not too worried about my blooms too much. No more freezes forecast for the next 10 days, but it’s supposed to rain again some tomorrow and Friday, so I worry more about pollinators getting to my trees, and blossoms not having the best pollen.
My guess why it didn’t drop more was maybe because the ground was so saturated it moderated the temps somewhat by keeping the area more moist and not dry which would encourage the temps to plummet?
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They were calling for 32F here last night…
530 am… it was 36F
635 am (sunrise) temp dropped to 35F… but once the sun is up good it should warm up quickly.
There is no sign of frost on the grass.
The high today is supposed to be in the mid 60s.
Hope this is my last serious cold threat.
TNHunter
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I also dodged the worst of it, our low over the last two days/nights was 46* actually a degree warmer than predicted. I’ll take it, luckily it was windy so I wasn’t worried about a possible frost.
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Dodged as well… We had temps of freezing or below for 7 hours overnight but the low was only 28.4F Based on local predictions I was worried it would be a few degrees cooler than that.
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I think you guys got all my luck! It was 25F by 2:30am here and stayed below 26F until 8am. The low was 22F. It’s just inching up now (at 9am) to above freezing. I’ll go cut some flowers apart tomorrow and see how they fared, but I’m not too optimistic!
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Forecast was for 31 last night, but we got down to 28.5 and the water was frozen in the bird bath so it was under 32 for a while. The effects of radiative cooling with a clear sky and dead calm.
I had moved figs and persimmons in pots back into the garage if they had obvious leaves, but left the ones out that had pushed buds, but no fully opened leaves… hopefully that wasn’t a mistake. My persimmons and a fig that are in ground are at various stages of leafing out, so we’ll have to see if they got nipped back at all.
I think apple, pear and peach blossoms should be okay, but there are so many flowers as long as it isn’t a wipe out it just saves me time thinning. I think my baby apricot and sour cherry fruits should be fine, based on the hardiness of those as I understand it.
I’ll take a close look tomorrow and then this weekend to see if any are breaking down.
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Predicted low here in a mountain valley west of Asheville was for 31. Clear radiational cooling nights usually results in our local NWS predicting 2 or 3 degrees warmer than actual lows. As I expected our low was 28 last night. My weather gauge recorded temps below freezing from 3:30am to around 8:30am. Hopefully apple blossoms will mostly survive this. Cherries and peaches have small fruit which I am hopeful will also make it.
Fingers crossed this is our last freeze - next risk is this coming Saturday morning following our next round of rain…
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I agree that soil moisture really does help with cold radiational cooling nights.
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It got a little lower in my area in Tysons, down to 24F according to my weather station…
In Southern MD where most of my trees are, it hits a low of 31F.
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Sorry to hear that, I’ve unfortunately been thru such scenarios in April and even May here. That’s why I don’t put out my tomatoes and other sensitive plants until late May.
Moist, bare soil is supposed to retain the most heat for radiation frosts. We try to get our vineyards mowed by budbreak so the cold air pools below trellis height and so the soil is more exposed to absorb heat from the sun.
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That’s what I’m guessing, because like I said, we usually get at least 5 degrees lower than the forecast temps. So when I saw it was supposed to be 28, I thought we’re gonna get a deep freeze, but it wasn’t. Those other times we got those bad freezes the ground was dry. Maybe @weatherandtrees could explain it better.
I should say it was 28 up on the hill at our house, we have trees down the hill that may have gotten a degree or two colder, but I don’t think it would’ve been too bad
It’s already above 40 at 10am and sunny and warming up quickly.
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25 here yesterday morn, surprisingly the magnolias are still in bloom, with only one browning petals. Too early to tell how much damage to the cots in bloom.
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Forecast last night was a low of 32. moved my potted plants into the garage but thought everything else in ground would be fine. temp got a lot lower than I expected. it was below freezing between 4:30am and 8am and bottomed out at 27 degrees.
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Thanks to all who are keeping the forum focused.
Flood waters are receded, downtown opened back up yesterday. Weather has been chilly but gorgeous the last two days, 45-55 and clear and sunny. Ground is already firming back up
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More rain on the way. 60’s-70’s. Lovely.
Mid to upper 20s here last night and approaching freezing again tonight. A couple of high 30s in the forecast this week still. I just walked around the yard and still see lots of blooms. The only things I saw definitely affected were the hardy kiwi leaves. Stems I had cut back also had some weeping at the cuts, unless it rained and I missed it. Some of the pawpaw flowers may have frozen or may not quite be open yet; they have several awkward stages, but htere are lots still in the green lantern phase.
Goumi have been full bloom for a while and my ancient pears as well. The peach and almond finally had blooms earlier this week that are still there, and the flowering almond may never grow, but ever bit of its 15" ball is covererd in pink.Nanking and Hansons appear to be done with flowers now, and autumn olive has flowers about to open.
Flowering quince are covered and I may get my first real quince flower this year. Honeyberries are promising my crop this year may see double digits, and even the Jostaberries are teasing me that htey may be more than just foliage plants.
I don’t think the day it hit 80 last week did me any favors, but I’m still hopeful another week with several mornings dipping below 40 won’t undo the plants’ hard work. There are even flowers on plants that shouldn’t still be in pots that I haven’t pulled out of their winter mulch yet.
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Wow what a difference a few miles over the Potomac makes! My backyard was 5+ degrees colder than you even just a few feet from the house. I moved things (forgetting the most important, in another post) and was happy to see that covers saved some blueberry and aronia blooms. We’ll see what happens with the Stella cherry and serviceberry that were blooming and one tree was already done blooming and covered in fruit.
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