Freeze Watch

[Boyd]

Bring it!

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
312 PM EDT FRI OCT 16 2015

OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKSON...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...
WHARTON STATE FOREST
312 PM EDT FRI OCT 16 2015

...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING...
...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY
MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING. A FREEZE WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FROM LATE
SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING.

* LOW TEMPERATURES...CLOSE TO 30 DEGREES ON SUNDAY MORNING AND
AROUND 30 DEGREES ON MONDAY MORNING. SOME LOWER MINIMUM
TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE DEEP WITHIN THE PINE BARRENS.

* TIMING...FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9 AM ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY
MORNINGS.

* IMPACTS...MANY COLD SENSITIVE PLANTS AND VEGETABLES COULD
LIKELY BE KILLED.

 

[46er]

Snowing in the mountains of upstate NY.

 

[smoke_jumper]

Death to chiggers

 

[Pinesbucks]

I can't wait for the chiggers to die. I wore rubber boots out checking my cameras this weekend no bites. But I wore regular boots walking outside in the field and had like 5 bites. I hate those suckers. I like fall and winter in the pines. Nothing like a sunrise when it's 20 degrees and everything snaps to life.

 

[Spung-Man]

Picked the last of the okra, luffa, peppers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and beans today. I'll cover a frying pepper and a sungold cherry tomato with a mover's blanket to hopefully steal on extra week's worth of growing season. It's a little unusual to go right to a hard freeze without a light frost first. Despite being at about Baltimore's latitude, my backyard has a shorter growing season than areas north on heavier soils – a legacy of loose sandy ground (low latent-heat storage, high heat-radiance). On May 21, 1992, the "Grassy Knoll," a sandy open patch atop the muted remains of a parabolic dune at the far end of my place dropped into the teens, frying leaves off Pitch Pine.

 

[Boyd]

I wore regular boots walking outside in the field and had like 5 bites.

Wow, I guess your chiggers didn't get the memo that they are supposed to go away on October 15. https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/chiggers.10732/#post-131075

Porch thermometer recorded a low of 36 last night here, so we are almost there.

 

[Boyd]

Now it has been upgraded to a "Freeze Warning", with temperatures in the mid to upper 20's.

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Freeze Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
508 AM EDT SAT OCT 17 2015


SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-MIDDLESEX-
WESTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON-
WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN...
FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...NEW BRUNSWICK...FREEHOLD...JACKSON...
MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...WHARTON STATE FOREST...JIM THORPE...
STROUDSBURG...READING...ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM...EASTON...
HONEY BROOK...OXFORD...COLLEGEVILLE...POTTSTOWN...CHALFONT...
PERKASIE

508 AM EDT SAT OCT 17 2015

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM
EDT SUNDAY…

...FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY MORNING...

* LOW TEMPERATURES...LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE MID 20S IN THE
POCONOS AND NEAR 30 DEGREES ACROSS THE LEHIGH VALLEY AND PINE
BARRENS. TOMORROW NIGHT... LOWS WILL MAINLY BE IN THE MID TO
UPPER 20S.

* TIMING...FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9 AM ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY
MORNINGS. SOME SUB FREEZING TEMPERATURES COULD OCCUR EARLIER
EACH NIGHT IN THE POCONOS.

* IMPACTS...ALL COLD SENSITIVE PLANTS AND VEGETABLES WILL LIKELY
BE KILLED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR
HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER
SENSITIVE VEGETATION.

NOW IS THE TIME TO PICK THOSE LAST FEW HERBS AND VEGETABLES.
GIVEN HOW COLD SUNDAY NIGHT POTENTIALLY LOOKS... MANY
PREVENTATIVE METHODS MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH TO PREVENT COLD
SENSITIVE VEGETATION FROM DYING. IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO
ALREADY... PLEASE BRING INDOORS ALL TROPICAL PLANTS.

A FREEZE WATCH MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE.

 

[46er]

Mt Washington is white and cold.

https://xmountwashington.appspot.com/csc.html?size=large&refreshCSS=0.6517404829960472

 

[NJChileHead]

Picked the last of the okra, luffa, peppers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and beans today. I'll cover a frying pepper and a sungold cherry tomato with a mover's blanket to hopefully steal on extra week's worth of growing season. It's a little unusual to go right to a hard freeze without a light frost first. Despite being at about Baltimore's latitude, my backyard has a shorter growing season than areas north on heavier soils – a legacy of loose sandy ground (low latent-heat storage, high heat-radiance). On May 21, 1992, the "Grassy Knoll," a sandy open patch atop the muted remains of a parabolic dune at the far end of my place dropped into the teens, frying leaves off Pitch Pine.

I just removed the hot peppers this past week, and the tomatoes two weeks ago. Still have some mustard greens, spinach, carrots and chard growing, which I will cover. Coincidentally, I'm about to go outside and plant the kale!

 

[Spung-Man]

NJCH,

Gardening really unites Pineys to the weather and associated seasonal changes. It was the lure of cheap land and the romance of self-sufficiency that brought many homeseekers to the southern Pines. In war-torn Europe, foodstuffs were often in short supply. Pine Barrnes ethnic settlements meant security. My father was named after an uncle who basically died of starvation at the edge of the Pripet Swamp near Chernobyl. This was in the Great Sand Belt at ice-sheet's edge, Europe’s equivalent of the Pine Barrens. The village, Barashi, literally meant swamp people. Prussia too was located in that sand belt, so early German pioneers also had special techniques to farm sandy ground.

Come Earnest Homeseekers...

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An example of a Richland garden plot:

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Just after last frost in early May – snow peas, snap peas, dandelion, garlic, mustard greens, pak choi, broccoli, lettuce, kale, daikon, baby corn, etc.

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Just before first big freeze mid October – two big luffa left to frost for sponge-making; small ones today cooked in chicken curry along with the last of the okra, onion, and baby eggplant.

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Summer’s heat matured a good crop of tingly-tangy Szechuan peppercorn (Zanthoxylum piperitum), picked today for drying.

S-M

 

[kayak karl]

Bring it!

YES.... KILL those Chiggers