Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

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We'll be below 0 tonight and maybe top out in the teens tomorrow and Monday. Still, that's mild compared to our normal temps.
 
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Evo said:
It's supposed to be 5F tonight.
No, it's supposed to be 82F. It's just going to be 5F.
 
We are in the mid-teens and diving. No joy for the next few days, unfortunately. Dem Canucks are shipping us cold air, just to get rid of it.
 
Baby, it's NOT cold outside. 35 degrees and raining with occasional admixture of wet snow. This is not a typical winter. Maine usually gets the kind of winter that Romania is having now, except that nobody helicopters in food, fuel, and firewood to us. We have to be prepared and stocked up before the freeze hits.
 
We are back to just below 0 deg C, with some snow (enough to slow down traffic in the city, but nothing extraordinary). It can get worse if it will start to rain on Sudnay.
 
The rain has stopped, the snow failed to accumulate, and the sun is peeking out with temps in the low 40s. This is NOT a normal winter for us. A few more years of this, and I'll be tempted to start planting orange trees.
 
The grass in the pasture has grown 2-3 inches this week. It looks like spring has arrived a month early.
 
Not good, Ivan. A late cold-snap can set that back quickly. Your temps are moderated by the pacific, but around here a Canadian arctic high can slam stuff back hard. If my apple trees have budded and we get a frost, we get precious few pollinators with few blossoms to visually clue in on, and few apples as a result. This inconsistent weather is a bear. Local orchards are falling on hard times.
 
Mid 30s and raining. This is one very odd winter.

My wife fell in the driveway this morning because that light rain had slicked up the frozen pavement. She's OK - just a bit sore.
 
6°C here - that's about 43°F. Looks like the real winter is over. It wasn't long.
 
Yesterday it was 60F and sunny. Today colder weather finally arrives. 59F.
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
Yesterday it was 60F and sunny. Today colder weather finally arrives. 59F.
Better bundle up!
 
Thank you for teaching us about meteorology. You're more awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out of bacon riding a cyborg unicorn with a lightsaber for the horn on the tip of a space shuttle closing in on Mars while engulfed in flames. - Flint
 
45F and climbing under sunny skies. Tomorrow could hit 60 F. Much better than yesterday - low 30s and freezing rain.
 
Ah spring, when the flowers bloom, the birds sing, and you wake up to four inches of snow... HUH?! This is a surprise!

This is the most accumulation we've had all winter and it's still coming down.
 
I'm afraid my fruit trees will bloom too soon, and be without pollinators or be killed of by a late frost. Far too warm here.
 
turbo said:
I'm afraid my fruit trees will bloom too soon, and be without pollinators or be killed of by a late frost. Far too warm here.
Everything will be killed here including the pollinators. :cry:
 
dlgoff said:
Everything will be killed here including the pollinators. :cry:
My fear, too, dlg. Things are changing too fast, and nature can't keep up, I'm afraid.
 
Damn! It's still a bit cool in the house, but 82 F in the shade outside. I fear for early-blooming crops because there is still plenty of "winter" ahead.
 
AlephZero said:
The UK seems to be living up to an old weather proverb: if the ice is thick enough for a duck to walk on before Christmas, it won't be thick enough for a goose to walk on all year.

Walk?! :bugeye:
Here, Canada geese and Canuck ducks are hatched knowing how to skate. It's very handy for the unfortunate ones who miss their flights for migration.
 
Pine pollen season started here a few days ago, about two or three weeks early. My wife's car is now light green instead of white. :-p
 
I fear for this year's fruit crops. We will eventually get back into a "Baby it's cold outside" trend, I think, but again today, we are in the mid-80s in the shade and the fruit trees are sporting fattening buds. Bad news for the commercial apple/pear orchards here, I fear. Combined with a warm winter that allowed many insect pests to over-winter, they will be fighting for their financial survival. Crops will likely be small, and insecticide costs may be very high. Not good.
 
This is ridiculous! 86 in the shade here, and it's only the second day of spring! I really want to get the "Baby it's cold outside" conditions to put some my fruit trees back into dormancy, if that's even possible at this point.
 
We ended up with about 7" of snow over the last couple of days. Some of it melted and then it dropped below freezing again and more came down. This is one of the heaviest snowfalls that we've seen in years.

Today it will be in near 40F but is supposed to drop into the low 20s again tonight. That means lots of black ice from the snow melt.
 
Baby it's warm out. But I am glad to hear my apple trees buzzing with Honey Bees. The most bees I've seen for at least 5 years. They're making a come-back here, IMO.
 
dlgoff said:
Baby it's warm out. But I am glad to hear my apple trees buzzing with Honey Bees. The most bees I've seen for at least 5 years. They're making a come-back here, IMO.
It was in the 80s last week. Now its 30 F outside and expected in the 20s tonight. This year's apple crop is iffy.

The leaves on my blueberries have opened already. That's not supposed to happen for several weeks. Last year - some of the new growth died during a late freeze.