An official freeze in Roanoke
Posted Apr16, 2008 at 09:40 AM
Roanoke's temperature at 7 a.m. was 31 degrees, meaning that the city officially experienced a freeze. The average last spring freeze from 1948 to 2007 was April 12, so this would only be 4 days later than average, provided there is not another freeze later in the spring. The latest date on record for a last freeze was May 11 in 1966, though it dropped to 33 on May 22, 2003, missing a freeze 11 days later by 1 degree. The earliest date for a last spring freeze was March 18 in 1978. The last spring freeze was very early that year even though it followed an extremely cold winter.
Temperatures almost everywhere else in Southwest Virginia were below freezing for a few hours this morning. There is the potential for damage to anything that is budding or blooming, but that seems to be much less than last year, since our March wasn't as warm.
A few areas may get to freezing again Thursday morning, though the overall trend the next several days will be for much warmer weather.
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