Cooler nights coming
 

It got down to 51.4 degrees here last night, so Fall is settling in, I guess.

Daytime highs are still getting into the mid 80s, though.

65 f here.

33.6 degrees overnight last night. I guess we will lose Connie's pineapple gardens because we are just not in any shape to be dragging out tarps and covering them during the cold nights coming. Then uncovering them the following mornings and putting away the tarps when rain threatens. That is the way the cookie crumbles, I guess.

48f here.

30.7 degrees overnight here last night. :ack2:

Saw 62 last night for a brief time

It was 57 in Orlando yesterday morning when I was there. That wasn't the low but, still cool for the area. 37 up here in Georgia this morning.

We hit a low of 34.7 degrees here overnight. The low point was actually at 7:45am.

I have not had a temp below 34f in years. Looks like a long warm up for weeks. Gonna be a super dry and warm winter.

The tourist will be happy.

Looks like things are going to get REAL ugly with the overnight temps this weekend. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday forecast lows are supposed to be in the low 20s. :ack2:

Maybe 34f here. Not been below 34 in years.

I sometimes thing that perhaps we should have bought land further south instead of here near Tallahassee 30 some years ago. But I seriously doubt we could have found 50 acres there for anywhere near the price we paid for what we have. At least not unless it was all just swampland.

We have been picking as much fruit as we can off of the trees. I expect some leaf damage on some of the fruit trees, but I hope we don't lose any trees altogether. It is going to be pretty cold for long periods at night, and that is going to be a real problem. I will need to run outside faucets to keep water moving in the water pump tank so that doesn't freeze up.

If Connie feels up to it, we will try to cover her pineapple plants, but I think it is supposed to get very windy on Friday, and that might be wasted effort.

With any luck, the weather forecast is going to be just way wrong and it won't get as cold as they are predicting. Now the forecast from the National Weather Service, Friday thru Monday nights is 19, 19, 23, 28 degrees, respectively. :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:

Yeah so much for wishing for a mild winter, right?

When we bought our land in Sopchoppy back in 1996 we paid $9000 for the 4.42 acres. Prices all around there now are WAY north of that!

I just bought an additional 1.202 acres up here in Georgia next to my house for $4000. And housing here is much more reasonable. Over near Donaldsonville there is (was?) a 3800 sq/ft 4 bed 3 bath on 8.99 acres for $219K. WAY better than Florida's prices.

Glades county was cheap.

Getting ready to go to bed. 23.2 degrees at the weather station in front of the garage right now. Got tarps over the water pump tank, the pool pump and Connie's pineapple plants. Got water running out of all the outside faucets, and the pool pumps are running too. Going to be very cold again Saturday and Sunday nights. High tomorrow (Saturday) is only supposed to reach 38 degrees. I think things are going to be pretty gruesome with the plants after this has passed through. Might even lose a few of the citrus trees.

I think I am going to carry around extra socks in case I run into anyone talking about global warming. I will hand them one and tell them to stick a sock in it, I am not buying that BS.

Only 34f here. I just can't get below 34f.

Well, if I could, I would send you some. :)

Got down to 19.8 overnight. Just now barely got over freezing at 32.4. Probably won't even reach 40 degrees today. Then more of the same for tonight and tomorrow night. :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:

The high today only reached 37.8 degrees. Forecast looks pretty ugly again for tonight and tomorrow night.

Merry Christmas and all that........ :ack2:

Hey! 2022! Hit the road!!!!

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry (Chilly) Christmas!

Low of 19.2 degrees last night.

Low temp of 19.0 degrees here last night. Supposed to be warming up but might still get down to the high 20s tonight.

Some of the citrus trees don't look very happy. Lots of curled up leaves.

It got down to 17 at my place in Georgia and my Satsuma and Lemon tree leaves are curled up too. Read an article that said lemon trees are only good down to about 28!:eek:

I may have lost the tree(s).

The trees themselves can survive the leaf damage, so I have my fingers crossed that they will bounce back. I really thought that Connie's relatively young Pumelo tree was going to be history, but it looks like it has sustained no leaf damage at all. Yet the Cara Cara navel next to it is looking pretty pitiful.

We covered Connie's pineapple plants, but I don't have much hope they fared well, even being covered up. It was just too cold for too long. Probably won't uncover them till Wednesday, so I guess we will see the damage then.

Man, I would really hate being a full time farmer and have to worry about crap like this wiping me out all of the time. I am guessing that it was events like this that eventually wiped out most of the citrus plantations in central Florida. All it takes is a weekend like we just had.

That being said, if we lose any trees, they won't be replaced. This "global warming" is just not good for the citrus.

Only 33f was as cold as i got. I can't buy 32 or lower anymore.

You would actually WANT colder temperatures?

MID 20'S WOULD BE FINE to kill off bugs and some weeds.

A local friend of mine used to say he wished it would get colder here to kill off the mosquitoes. I had to point out to him that some of the worst areas for mosquito infestations are within the arctic circle. Many reviews I have read of people going on trips to Alaska commented on the horrendous swarms of mosquitoes up there. Yeah, you wouldn't have them if it stayed below zero all year long, but that would not be a suitable trade off for me.

Maybe the cold will kill off some insects, but it isn't a complete solution to that problem. Eggs will be laid during the active season, and those eggs will hatch when it warms up again. If cold snaps were a solution to the insect problem, then northern states would be completely and permanently devoid of insects, which certainly is not the case.

As for weeds, heck, they would be back in the Spring, just like the "good" plants that would get kicked back. Nature is just like that.

That might have been the coldest it has been in 2 years, not just one.

This weekend had the coldest temps we have had where we live for quite a few years. I have never felt like I had to cover the well pump tank before.

Overnight low last night was *only* 27.5 degrees. Forecast low for tonight is 42 degrees. Well it was earlier today, let me check it now.... Well one forecast is still saying 42 degrees, but the other one if claiming 40 degrees. Whatever...

I uncovered everything and surprisingly the pineapple plants look OK. But the citrus trees, well, nearly all the leaves are curled up on them, which is not a good sign. Hope the trees themselves didn't get killed. But won't know that for a while. Have to wait and see if new leaves form when Spring rolls around.

Couple of more weekends like this last one and they probably all will be history.

Low temp last night got down to 25.3 degrees. Didn't cover any plants, didn't drip any pipes. Nothing. Screw it. Whatever will be will be.

Got to 39f.

Our Satsuma tree looks dead from that 17 degree blast we got a couple or three weeks ago. Like black leaves dead. The lemon tree lost about 95% of its leaves as did the Kumquat but they just curled up and fell off. The Satsuma's leaves are still on it but black. I guess we'll see what happens in the Spring.

39f this AM.

27.5 degrees here as a low overnight. :ack2:

Overnight low of 29.7 degrees last night.

Most of our citrus trees have been completely denuded of leaves. I hope none of them got killed outright by that cold Christmas weekend we had.

I will never get close to that ever again. Been years since i saw a 30f or colder.

Sometimes I do wish that Connie and I had moved further south than we did. But then again, highly unlikely we could have found 50 acres at an affordable price like we did up here. At least anything that wasn't swampland.

No land like that down here unless you get into Glades county.