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Limner
04-06-2009, 11:57 AM
Al Gore, CALL YOUR OFFICE. :evil: You SERIOUSLY need to rethink the evidence....

Hubby and I are going to be busy covering baby lettuce, peas and onions before it gets dark tonight....grrrrr.......

Freeze Warning

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
349 AM EDT MON APR 6 2009

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM MONDAY TO 10 AM EDT
TUESDAY...

.IN THE WAKE OF A DEPARTING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...UNSEASONABLY
COLD AIR WILL BE DRAWN SOUTH FROM CANADA AND INTO CENTRAL
INDIANA...RESULTING IN LOW TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE MIDDLE
20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHTS. A WIDESPREAD HARD
FREEZE IS EXPECTED ON BOTH NIGHTS.

INZ051>053-060>065-067>072-061600-
/O.NEW.KIND.FZ.A.0001.090408T0300Z-090408T1400Z/
/O.CON.KIND.FZ.W.0001.090407T0300Z-090407T1400Z/
VIGO-CLAY-OWEN-SULLIVAN-GREENE-MONROE-BROWN-BARTHOLOMEW-DECATUR-
KNOX-DAVIESS-MARTIN-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-JENNINGS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TERRE HAUTE...BLOOMINGTON...COLUMBUS...
VINCENNES...BEDFORD...SEYMOUR
349 AM EDT MON APR 6 2009

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
10 AM EDT TUESDAY...
...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING. A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS
EVENING TO 10 AM EDT TUESDAY.

A FREEZE IS EXPECTED MONDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO
DROP TO 25 TO 30 DEGREES MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING.

A SECOND NIGHT OF COLD TEMPERATURES IS EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT AND
INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE IN THE
MIDDLE TO UPPER 20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD HARD
FREEZE CONDITIONS AGAIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER
SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE.
THESE CONDITIONS COULD KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

&&

$$
goatlady
04-06-2009, 12:21 PM
me too, gal. I got my stuff covered last night just in case it moved faster than thought - only got down to 34 this a.m., but supposed to be in the low 20s before dawn tomorrow. We have had horrible steady winds for 2 days here which has played havoc with the covers!
dilligaf
04-06-2009, 12:28 PM
Hubby and I are going to be busy covering baby lettuce, peas and onions before it gets dark tonight....grrrrr.......



all that should be able to handle a few hours at 25 no problem.

we have all our cold crops in and are expecting high twenties with snow showers tonight and mid twenties tomorrow night. we aint worried,they can handle a couple nights of weather like this..

dogwood winter,happens every year,aint lost a crop yet.
Limner
04-06-2009, 01:19 PM
me too, gal. I got my stuff covered last night just in case it moved faster than thought - only got down to 34 this a.m., but supposed to be in the low 20s before dawn tomorrow. We have had horrible steady winds for 2 days here which has played havoc with the covers!

Our winds have REALLY picked up, too...I noticed that looking out the window, I need to go back out to the goat shed and check on the two pregnant Mom's, but I'm sure not looking forward to being out there. I have the woodstove going and the inside nice and cozy.
Limner
04-06-2009, 01:21 PM
all that should be able to handle a few hours at 25 no problem.

we have all our cold crops in and are expecting high twenties with snow showers tonight and mid twenties tomorrow night. we aint worried,they can handle a couple nights of weather like this..

dogwood winter,happens every year,aint lost a crop yet.

Dilligaf, have you any experience with this stuff and fruit trees? Our Plum trees bore for the first time last year and are in full bloom now. I suspect that means we'll have no plums, huh? The apples have quite sensibly refused to bloom this early, thank heavens.
Martinhouse
04-06-2009, 01:56 PM
Temps will be in the low 20s here tonight. There go my little pears again. I haven't had a pear crop for three or four years now and was so hoping they wouldn't freeze this year!

The trees are loaded and I would have gotten several bushels. Now I'll get what will look a little like raisins.

Oh, well. The blossoms were pretty.

Carol
Nicho1
04-06-2009, 02:07 PM
Fruit tree blossoms are definitely a problem, but cool-weather crops like lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, swiss chard, collards, brussel sprouts, spinach have no problem. In fact, I kept collards over the winter. They looked "saggy" after two nights of 17 and 14 degrees but they are just fine now. That's the great thing with these kinds of plants. Plant them early, enjoy them, and then in June, when the weather is hot, plant something else where they were...except no tomatoes there. Tomatoes are not to follow cabbage, etc.
dilligaf
04-06-2009, 02:27 PM
Dilligaf, have you any experience with this stuff and fruit trees? Our Plum trees bore for the first time last year and are in full bloom now. I suspect that means we'll have no plums, huh? The apples have quite sensibly refused to bloom this early, thank heavens.

we are from the apple capital of georgia. what they do with the orchards is set out sprinklers and spray water on the buds till they get a layer of ice over them. i guess this protects the buds. not sure how viable that is for you,but i am pretty sure its common practice for fruit orchards. i know they do it with citrus in florida as well.
dilligaf
04-06-2009, 02:31 PM
if its any consolation,our peach and almond trees have already finished flowering ,so i guess we wont have any harvest from them this year.