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Not worried back this way. Mid/upper 30s at the worst.

Lows this morning

Probably. It may depend on the cultivars. I’ve had no flowers this year, but my tree is on its last leg.

All of mine were like that. Maybe it’s a protective mechanism for them. Guess we’ll see this afternoon. My potted grafted apple and nut trees look zapped. Pawpaws looked ok, but won’t know for sure until after it warms back up this afternoon.

AC for lows in the 50s?

HIE ASOS had never had a temp in the teens past 4/29 until this morning…almost 3 weeks later than that day in 2002. BML hit at least 19° as well and the ASOS has only been that cold once past this date (19° on 5/20/02).

The 25° in CON ties the record low for the date and it’s only been colder than this, past this date, 2 previous times. So this is pretty impressive.

CON 25° Looks like 28.3° will do it here. I’ll probably lose a few apple blossoms, bit nothing too bad…not sure how the emerging pawpaw foliage will react.

29.3° so far. CON 26° and HIE 19° Still a couple of hours to go unfortunately

35°

39.4°

Well the cowbirds are a “parasitic” bird. The mother lays eggs in the nests of other birds and doesn’t raise them on her own until they leave the nest. The cowbird eggs tend to hatch first and grow larger more rapidly and the babies can actually toss the youngins from the other bird out of the nest. So the cowbird has a distinct advantage over the other phoebes. The cowbirds are native so this is a natural thing that has been happening for some time. But I’d rather lose 1 cowbird than risk losing 4 phoebes.

12z MAV with a 12° for BML. lol

nah they like the cooler temps. They would install in April like you if they could.

Reverse the AC and blow the hot air in?

Hoping for 30+ here and only a couple hours of it. Better yet, keep the wind up and stay above freezing. The apples and pears are pretty tough so I'm not too worried about them unless we start getting into the 20s. The orchards in the MRV may be a different story...especially CON/Loudon. I'm worried there will be no PYO peaches at Carter Hill Orchard this year. I haven't had a lot of experience with this much cold this late with my pawpaw trees, but I think they'll be fine too. It is what it is. Most of the potted plants will be coming in...even the figs and avocados. I did have the avos outside for that May 2020 snow/cold event and they survived despite a little leaf burning.

Pretty cold airmass for the 2nd half of May. Sometimes we can go a week in January higher than this.

He'll run with his bush league high of 63F at 1am.

Sorry...the 50/21 was CON, not here. I'm only 46.8F right now at 1pm.

You’ll be ok on the hill I think if the CON min is 27°+. I’ll be borderline here. I’m leaning something like 32-34° there, 30-32° here, and 27-29° at CON.

Not a fan of seeing 50/21 right now though.

I’ll take the over on that 22° for CON. The 5/18 record is 25°, the latest 22° is 5/11/1900, and it has also never been colder than 24° past that 5/11 date.

Yikes

I wish. That would at least smell like Subway.

Smells like an ash tray out here this evening. The sun has been orange-red for hours