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March 2024 Discussion

SD said:
I wish we could just quantify the whole thing.
Are we calling a freeze below 28 or 32?
What do we consider a frost? Below 36? Below 34? When we actually see it?
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Frost is what the eyeballs see, regardless of temps. Freeze or hard freeze to me was always 28. 30-32 with wind or clouds isn't as harsh on plants as 33-34 and moderate -mega frost
 
NCSNOW said:
Frost is what the eyeballs see, regardless of temps. Freeze or hard freeze to me was always 28. 30-32 with wind or clouds isn't as harsh on plants as 33-34 and moderate -mega frost
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A quick drop to 30-32 where it only stays that temp for a few hours when there was preceding good warm period where the ground is still “warm” doesn’t seem to hurt much either.

It follows the same line as plumbing where one night in the single digits/low teens won’t do as much damage as three nights in the low twenty’s.
 
I still say the worst freeze I remember was the "Easter Freeze" of 2007 (April 7-8) We had had a very prolonged very warm March with temps in lower 20's and even some teens it devastated the peach crop in SC and GA with losses being 75-90%. Berry patches (strawberry "pick your own" near me had opened that week and were wiped out totally.. Also the majority of trees had leafed out and those froze and had to "re-leaf" . I also remember that the lightning bugs were very heavy that March and they took many years to recover to normal amounts.
 
gawxnative said:
I still say the worst freeze I remember was the "Easter Freeze" of 2007 (April 7-8) We had had a very prolonged very warm March with temps in lower 20's and even some teens it devastated the peach crop in SC and GA with losses being 75-90%. Berry patches (strawberry "pick your own" near me had opened that week and were wiped out totally.. Also the majority of trees had leafed out and those froze and had to "re-leaf" . I also remember that the lightning bugs were very heavy that March and they took many years to recover to normal amounts.
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I remember that very well. It’s pretty rare to get a hard freeze in April. Usually when we get a freeze in April it’s 30-32.
 
gawxnative said:
I still say the worst freeze I remember was the "Easter Freeze" of 2007 (April 7-8) We had had a very prolonged very warm March with temps in lower 20's and even some teens it devastated the peach crop in SC and GA with losses being 75-90%. Berry patches (strawberry "pick your own" near me had opened that week and were wiped out totally.. Also the majority of trees had leafed out and those froze and had to "re-leaf" . I also remember that the lightning bugs were very heavy that March and they took many years to recover to normal amounts.
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I remember that; it was near June before the trees looked normal.
 
Chazwin said:
CLT had its last freeze on 4/11 in 2020 which is about right on the average last date of 4/10. It looks like RDU got down to 33 that morning so it’s fair to say a good number of folks in the area got below freezing… both locations previous freeze before that one was 3/8. It is surprising that RDU’s average last freeze is 3/31. CLT’s is 4/10 and I think GSO is 4/16
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I didn’t realize CLT’s and GSO’s were that late. I guess it just confirms RDU is truly hell. 😂

EDIT: Although this site gives RDU’s as later than GSO’s. I’m guessing a lot of these differences are because of reporting periods, where more recent reporting periods are going to have earlier last freezes because of a warmer climate and, more importantly, an increased UHI.
 
I did find this:

Frost Freeze Maps

www.weather.gov

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Based on this, the earliest last freeze was 3/1/1935 for RDU, so if we don’t see another, we’ll set that record. GSO’s in the same boat with an earliest last freeze of 3/7/2010. Last 28F freeze record for RDU is 2/2/1909, which is safe at least. But for GSO it is 2/24/1997, so that is in jeopardy.
 
gawxnative said:
I still say the worst freeze I remember was the "Easter Freeze" of 2007 (April 7-8) We had had a very prolonged very warm March with temps in lower 20's and even some teens it devastated the peach crop in SC and GA with losses being 75-90%. Berry patches (strawberry "pick your own" near me had opened that week and were wiped out totally.. Also the majority of trees had leafed out and those froze and had to "re-leaf" . I also remember that the lightning bugs were very heavy that March and they took many years to recover to normal amounts.
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That was the year I was in Atlanta watching the Braves play on Easter weekend and there were actually some flurries at Turner Field on Friday night during the game.
 
gawxnative said:
I still say the worst freeze I remember was the "Easter Freeze" of 2007 (April 7-8) We had had a very prolonged very warm March with temps in lower 20's and even some teens it devastated the peach crop in SC and GA with losses being 75-90%. Berry patches (strawberry "pick your own" near me had opened that week and were wiped out totally.. Also the majority of trees had leafed out and those froze and had to "re-leaf" . I also remember that the lightning bugs were very heavy that March and they took many years to recover to normal amounts.
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Yep, 2007 was brutal. IIRC, the re-leaf was about 50% of normal, so ended up with a hotter/dryer summer due to the thinner canopy and reduced transpiration.
 
Snowlover87 said:
Wow I never realized that the freeze in April and the summer drought was connected.
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August of that year was just miserable. The most 100 degree days I’ve ever seen in one month and by a lot. Also it was still very humid which is unusual for CLT… typically when there is 100 degree heat here it’s due to downslope flow which relaxes the humidity some… not that summer however. It didn’t do a bit of good on getting rain though
 
Chazwin said:
August of that year was just miserable. The most 100 degree days I’ve ever seen in one month and by a lot. Also it was still very humid which is unusual for CLT… typically when there is 100 degree heat here it’s due to downslope flow which relaxes the humidity some… not that summer however. It didn’t do a bit of good on getting rain though
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That month was absolutely brutal and had some of the highest nighttime lows I've ever seen in summer for much of the month. Quick stat; GSP experienced 5.8% of all it's 100+ day readings in its history in just that month (8 out of 138). I hope I never see a month like that again.
 
Iceagewhereartthou said:
That month was absolutely brutal and had some of the highest nighttime lows I've ever seen in summer for much of the month. Quick stat; GSP experienced 5.8% of all it's 100+ day readings in its history in just that month (8 out of 138). I hope I never see a month like that again.
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You think GSP had it bad. Columbia SC was beyond brutal. Weeks worth of 100+ degree highs. Multiple lows of 80 or ever higher. The lowest high during that entire month long heat wave was 92.
 
Chazwin said:
That was the year I was in Atlanta watching the Braves play on Easter weekend and there were actually some flurries at Turner Field on Friday night during the game.
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Yes, it was actually a moderate snowfall event for some parts of central Texas, and the latest snowfall on record for many of them (including College Station).

kdhnews.com

Snow leaves 27,000 without power

By Mason W. Canales
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NWS Lubbock, TX, April 7, 2007 Snow Event

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Areas not far from Houston apparently got an inch or two, as well.
 
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