{"id":591,"date":"2015-03-23T21:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-03-23T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T01:24:27","slug":"late-freeze-possible-next-weekend-for-southeast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/2015\/03\/late-freeze-possible-next-weekend-for-southeast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Late freeze possible next weekend for Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we\u2019re past the average date for last frost in parts of the Southeast, it is not too late for a cold blast to move through the area. \u00a0Early signs for next weekend, Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29, show that another surge of cold air is expected to move into the area following a pair of cold fronts on Thursday and Friday. \u00a0Temperatures in northern Georgia and Alabama as far south as Birmingham and Atlanta could be reach 32 F on\u00a0Saturday morning, and even colder temperatures could be seen on Sunday morning, with freezing temperatures as far south as Albany GA or possibly even farther south.<\/p>\n<p>If you have crops at a stage that is sensitive to frost, such as the blueberries and peaches I saw blooming this week as I drove south to Waycross for the Georgia Blueberry Growers\u2019 meeting, you are going to want to watch this carefully. \u00a0 \u00a0A hard frost at this time of year after a warm spell could cause significant damage to agriculture around the Southeast. \u00a0Since this is still almost a week off, the forecast will probably change somewhat, but it is worth watching because of the potential severe impacts it could have.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/cpc-temp-outlook-3-22-2015.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information obtained from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/\">https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/<\/a>\u00a0and written by Pam Knox pknox@uga.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we\u2019re past the average date for last frost in parts of the Southeast, it is not too late for a cold blast to move through the area. \u00a0Early signs for next weekend, Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29, show that another surge of cold air is expected to move into the area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}