Looks like a light snow cover right now. I assume my entire yard where it had greened up will be black and dead this afternoon. I doubt covering plants last night worked but we will see. Really need a rain this weekend and a long warm period to encourage things to start the regrowth process
It's ok after tonight the winter zombies will crawl back in their holes and this will all be forgotten by May ?
It sucks but it happens and you know nature will find a way it always does, if it didn't we would look like mars. I would certainly like to not have prolonged AN temps in March. Yeah it's nice but I told you guys it causes issues
Doubtful. I don't see how we recover from this. ?
I want to see that same attitude there for severe weather from y’all since everything that isn’t snow or ice or freezes is catastrophic ! See you in the next severe thread .
I think that green up site people use is -------- or we aren't using it correctly honestly. Maybe I'm just misremembering but I don't believe we used to green up until mid April and that's slid forward over the last 10-15 yrs
I've got pictures from early April 2018 and nothing is green. I'll check my pics to see if I have other years
I remember everything had buds that Feb but I don't remember a ton of green up but you could be right.
Severe weather events are definitely way overhyped. Not talking about anyone here, because this is a weather board, and talking about it is what we do. But TV, Twitter, etc. has turned every threat of anything into the worst thing possible. Snow, heat, storms, freezes, wind, even rain. It's a rush to see who can put out the biggest doom and gloom forecast/discussion. And 98% of the time, we don't get snow, we don't get severe weather outbreaks, the wind gusts to only 20, the vegetation comes back, the heat wave ends up being muted, and we don't have catastrophic flooding. Reasonable and normal doesn't sell nearly as well as hype and drama.
My recollection is February was spring fever central then -NAO locked in the beginning of March 2018 which resulted mostly cold wind for the month; which is typical at least in this neck of the woods; not so bad this year at least until April
I think we have the same opinions on Bradfords worst tree ever
I think we were on track for a very normal green up this year . Trees had small leaves on them and we were on track for full leaf out within a week until tonight ! I don’t think the average green up date has changed much though at all. March has been cool last 10 years and April slightly milder .
I think one thing that will help the leaves come back fairly quick is that there doesn’t appear to be any extended dry spell anytime soon and we don’t appear to be getting washed out for days at a time. Hopefully things will be back on track a couple weeks from now
Looks like a total loss last night on all new growth that had started even though I covered and wrapped my plants. That's tough. But yay it got cool
30.528inHg 1033.8mb was the max imby
Yesterday’s 12z NAM MOS was exactly on the money as it turns out! 27 at GSO last night, 26 at RDU!!
I'm surprised Gainesville got as cold as Atlanta. I guess the winds were up in Atlanta.
