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Ellis Kinney · May 8, 2020

My farm is in Northern Ky. about 30 miles East of Cincy. It is Friday morning and the temperature is 52 degrees. Temp. is supposed to fall all day to an over night low of 25 or 26 degrees. May 10 is frost free day here. I have planted in my woods, to replace dead Ash trees, about 300 seedlings over the past few years. They are mostly in leaf. Dead????? What is your situation? Ellis

David G · May 8, 2020

It is going to freeze in eastern Iowa tonight, not normal, but not unheard of. My corn is either not up, or not mature enough to hurt it. The soil temperature has been low enough here that no crops are up. That is good.

mtf · May 8, 2020

Ellis, I am located at the bottom of the state and in the same situation. I grow about 10 acres of nursery stock, mostly container stock. Yesterday we filled greenhouses, and barns with the most sensitive trees. Today it is supposed to rain most of the day. We will cover more stock late this afternoon with remay, or tobacco canvas.

It is going to burn leaves, but most will come back out. I remember an old Amish man tell of a late freeze that burnt most leaves after they were almost completely leaved out. He said afterwards you could smell those leaves rotting, there were so many. Trees are very resilient.

Very young trees could have the tops die back. If so they will likely sucker back out from the bottom. In your situation, that will be no problem. The Lord will provide. Nathan

Blackhole49 · May 8, 2020

Can't imagine frost killing the trees.

Texasmark1 · May 8, 2020

I wouldn't like to have it happen but wouldn't loose any sleep over it. Might tinge the tip of a leaf, or may drop off altogether to return later on. Soil temp being warm enough to get your current sprouting, isn't going to kill the plant in cyclic weather on a daily basis, especially if you can get some solar radiation during the day. Besides, you probably have visible nodes on the trunk that haven't sprouted.

TimWafer · May 8, 2020

Snow predicted over next few days here in central NY. Heavy frost this morning.

John T · May 8, 2020

Where's Global Warming anyway lol

John T

muleman51 · May 8, 2020

Thin skim of ice on the mule water this morning. Corn has been in the ground two weeks, beans in a week and not up cool and very dry here in Zumbrota , MN. But we have beautiful sunshine now, 45* in the sun.

IHRedRules · May 8, 2020

Not likely to kill the trees unless they were weakened already. Most likely scenario if the frost killed the leaves is for the trees to leaf out again.

Richard G. · May 8, 2020

2 years back in the 80's and 90's, it got down to about 18 degrees in late April after the trees had leafed out.
Leave turned brown and fell off.
Came back with new leaves just fine.
Destroyed a lot of wheat and barley that had headed out.
Richard in NW SC

john in la · May 8, 2020

We welcome every cold front we can get this far south because it lowers our humidity. Predicting low 50?s for lows the next couple of days.

RJKeith · May 8, 2020

I live in central Virginia. Have some hay and a garden, and they are calling for frost and possible a freeze this weekend. Hay will be fine, but I had set out about 20 tomato plants, so I will cover those and keep my fingers crossed. Where is Al Gore when you need him!

David G · May 8, 2020

Australia is burning up, the cold down is relativity isolated.

Vicinalvictor · May 8, 2020

The sky is clear blue today in west Michigan, daytime high is the low 40's early, then falling into the 30's later this afternoon. Overnight, the temperature is expected in the middle 20's. The NWS has issued a freeze warning tonight, and expecting substantial crop damage to apples, peaches and blueberries.

MARK ROBKE · May 8, 2020

I too live in northern Kentucky, about 20 miles or so from Ellis, whom I did meet once. Very nice guy, by the way. Anyway our seasons have changed a lot- any farmer around here will say the same thing- our winters turn into summer without much spring and summer turns into winter without much autumn. Our last several springs have been cool and wet, but this year is the worst. Summers have been wetter too. Hay is stunted due to the cold weather and is headed out. It will be in short supply this year. I planted some lettuce and some grass seed about a month ago and it has barely sprouted. It should be growing vigorously but it is not. I have a small field I need to seed into hay, and I can't get onto the ground to finish it. I hate to plant so late. Mark.

55 50 Ron · May 8, 2020

In 1992 there was a frost in early June in southern MN. I don't remember all of the details as to the damage to crops.

55 50 Ron · May 8, 2020

https://www.farmprogress.com/weather/25-years-ago-coldest-july-history

Some interesting stuff about a volcanic eruption in 1991 in the Phillipines that had caused cold climate problems into 1992 and 1993.

Ron

Fred Werring · May 8, 2020

Ellis, I'm just a little north and east of you, across the river.

We start our flowers and veggies in a small float bed, (holds 9 trays) they haven't done well at all with the cooler temps. They've sprouted but not done much growing. Got them in the garage till this passes.

Got a bunch of grape vines to set out, gonna wait on them.

Wife has a lot of blackberries and raspberries with tender growth, and has things sprouting in her raised beds. We'll cover them, hope for the best.

Fertilized my hay and pasture ground couple weeks ago, all that lush growth....

It'll all work out, just may not be the way we want it to.

Fred

Ozlander · May 8, 2020

(quoted from post at 11:40:15 05/08/20) https://www.farmprogress.com/weather/25-years-ago-coldest-july-history

Some interesting stuff about a volcanic eruption in 1991 in the Phillipines that had caused cold climate problems into 1992 and 1993. Ron

No, No, No. Had to be caused by man.

GWIndy · May 8, 2020

Central Indiana is also cold. 52* at mid afternoon and a projected low of 28*. We started planting commercial corn and beans April 20. Seed corn was planted this week. Early corn is spiked and should be OK. Early beans have just emerged. Seed company says they can withstand 2 to 3 hours of 28* temperature so we are in a wait and see situation. Only worried about the beans planted April 20, 21, 22 & 23.

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