Frost/Freeze Right On Time

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by andy10917 » October 18th, 2018, 9:40 am

We missed the first frost here by 1 degree - it was a bit breezy overnight, and the air stayed mixed and frost didn't settle. Tonight isn't a borderline situation - it WILL frost over.

I spent quite a bit of time last night moving plants into the house from the porch to overwinter. Dirty job.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by MorpheusPA » October 18th, 2018, 10:01 am

Nothing here, we stayed about four degrees too warm. We've got another chance tonight, but it looks like it's going to stay too windy.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by Riverpilot » October 18th, 2018, 5:34 pm

We were about a week earlier than average, hitting 30 on the 10th with mixed 20's and 30's since then.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by andy10917 » October 18th, 2018, 8:03 pm

Looking across all of the posts, I don't see any early trends or late trends - I see pretty close to the averages as the trend.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by kentster » October 18th, 2018, 8:24 pm

Our average date is Oct 19th and calling for frost tonight...right on time.


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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by flyin-lowe » October 18th, 2018, 8:59 pm

We were right on time too here in Indiana. Quick question on my overseed from last month. We have had 2 frost this week, nothing real hard but frost none the less. Does the frost's cause all the new growth to stop or will it still move some since we are still getting into the high 50's during the day?

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by andy10917 » October 18th, 2018, 9:08 pm

No, frost causes nothing in the lawn. It is merely a good signal to use that has a tendency to predict the beginning of the greatest period of slowdown. Don't overthink its importance.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by PW405 » October 18th, 2018, 9:18 pm

We barely missed an early frost. Typical first frost is ~Nov 10, but we hit 35° on October 14.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by andy10917 » October 18th, 2018, 9:23 pm

We barely missed an early frost. Typical first frost is ~Nov 10, but we hit 35° on October 14.
Close only counts in horseshoes, darts, and atomic weapons :shock:

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by KBGkicksazz » October 19th, 2018, 4:29 am

We are a little behind the average but this morning as I type have a hard frost on the lawn.

I’m recovering from surgery and have nothing but time to kill as I’m unable to do any lawn work now until next Spring :(

Lawn has really slowed down on the growth I’m guessing one or two mows before lawn is done for the year.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by fun4me2 » October 19th, 2018, 5:07 am

Average frost here is Sept. 28. Looking at my notes from the last 5 years,
first frosts was pretty accurate to that date.

This year, first (light) frost was Oct. 14. 2 weeks later.
We are in a "freeze" warning this morning until 9 am.
Temp now is 29.
Too dark at the moment to see if there's frost on my lawn.
It's suppose to go to 65 by this afternoon.
Typical New England weather. :good:

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by Ruxie88 » October 19th, 2018, 8:00 am

Had frost this morning on the car for the first time this season in central NJ...On target.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by andy10917 » October 19th, 2018, 8:16 am

Escaped frost yesterday by 1 degree. No escape today - solid frost. So, 1 day late.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by agn015 » October 19th, 2018, 8:59 am

I don't have enough data of my own to compare to, but I woke up this morning to our first light frost. This is about a week early according to Dave's Garden's date of October 27. Looks like we have time until hard frost here. The forecast for the next 10 days has lows around 40° or warmer.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by Oldschool » October 19th, 2018, 9:56 am

My first frost arrived on September 25th. Two weeks beyond average first frost.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by ronfitch » October 19th, 2018, 10:52 am

Riverpilot wrote:
October 18th, 2018, 5:34 pm
We were about a week earlier than average, hitting 30 on the 10th with mixed 20's and 30's since then.
A few hundred miles up the Mississippi from you in the eastern Twin Cities, we were also just over a week early for first frost (average first frost date is Oct. 6th, hit for me September 29th). A fluke, as overnight air temps returned to normal (40s and 30s). First actual freeze was Oct. 12th, followed by snow on the 13th (more than the dusting predicted but gone by evening).

Fall is usually glorious in Minnesota, but September and October have both been grey and rainy. It has been dry since Saturday and there are still stops in my yard that are squishy underfoot.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by ken-n-nancy » October 19th, 2018, 11:31 am

Just had to share a picture of the frosty renovation from this morning...

Frost on the New Grass - almost 8 weeks old - on 2018-10-19!

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by fun4me2 » October 19th, 2018, 11:38 am

ken-n-nancy
Your picture is not showing up. :confused:

I did have another light frost this morning.
The 3rd one this week.

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by ken-n-nancy » October 19th, 2018, 1:53 pm

fun4me2 wrote:
October 19th, 2018, 11:38 am
ken-n-nancyYour picture is not showing up. :confused:
Yeah, there seems to be some sort of issue that doesn't make sense to me. Photos always used to work just fine for me.

I opened up a different thread on the issue at viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24558

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Re: Frost/Freeze Right On Time

Post by MorpheusPA » October 19th, 2018, 2:26 pm

Ours was a "sorta" frost. We got patchy frost that penetrated about halfway into the gardens and took out almost everything at the edges of more than half the gardens and the tropical plants throughout.

I'm calling it first frost, 20 hours early for the year. :-)

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