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  • From: athagan@atlantic.net
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] forecasted weather for the Eastern US
  • Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:36:19 -0400

Yep. Tuesday night the Weather Service is predicting 33 for the Gainesville, FL area. I've been expecting this since we always seem to get a frost around Easter, even when it falls late. Our average last frost date for my area is Apri 1st.

Nearly every oak species on the place had broken bud as well as all five pecan trees, figs, mulberries, blackberries, muscadines and so on. The only thing that hasn't yet are two pomegranates that have me tapping my foot. I put out the first of the tomatoes and peppers last weekend and have twice that many left to go that I was going to put out this weekend, but now I'm dithering.

.....Alan.

Quoting Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>:

My friend Matt posted this to the QuercusTrees list; thought it might
be of interest to NAFEXers, and I don't think Matt will mind...

Hi all,
I was just made aware of the weather model forecasts for the Eastern US on the night of April 7-8 and it looks they're predicting a big cold outbreak with low temps below freezing all the way down to North Florida! I hope everyone will escape without too much damage and I wondered if anyone in the Eastern 1/2 of the US has any Oaks that have broken bud already? My Q. vaseyana which broke bud has more or less stopped expanding it's buds ever since that cold wet snow and sleet event, but it doesn't look damaged at all yet.

Again, I hope everyone is prepared and your plants don't get too fried!

Matt S.

PS. You can find the weather model forecasts here: <http://wwwt.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalmaps/>http://wwwt.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalmaps/
Go down to the "temperature" maps and click on the "day 6" "lows".



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