Is there a site to find out your past years chill hours your area actually got?
Bonifay, FL 32425 zone 8b
Is there a site to find out your past years chill hours your area actually got?
Bonifay, FL 32425 zone 8b
the simple sites listed in the old guides are gone, where you could put in a zip code and it would spit out a number. you can still use an extension service model tool. the oregon state extension tool has data for the whole country so it should work for you:
https://uspest.org/risk/models
I did this for a station near tallahassee and got about 380 hours for the 2019-2020 winter with the simple model, does that sound right?
I don’t know of any on the national level, but at least a few states have something. Here’s one for Florida: http://agroclimate.org/tools/chill-hours-calculator/
Thanks for the site info. If I did it correctly the Chipley chill hours for winter 2018 was 739 and 2019 was 384, big difference. This will be a good site to explore. I checked out the last 5 years and the average chill hours was 609 which is pretty correct for the low hours predicted on the zones maps.
I lived in Tallahassee for a few years. That sounds about right.