IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Pleny of time for a freeze

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:54 AM

The major concern at the moment is if we will see freezing weather again this spring. The warm winter and extremely warm March have provoked much of our vegetation to grow and a hard freeze now would damage the more sensitive crops. The featured chart presents the last day each spring that the temperature was below 32 and 29 degrees Fahrenheit. While there has been another year with such an early date of the last sub 29 degree day, it seems rather unlikely that we could go through all of April without a freezing temperature below 32. The immediate term forecast continues the warmth, but perhaps a big storm is brewing next week.

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