Here's a change of pace: A freeze watch
Posted Oct27, 2007 at 05:20 PM
Never mind that I said it would be
warm and dry into the foreseeable future in my
Weather Journal column today. The overall outlook is still pretty warm -- normal to slightly above normal temperatures -- through most of this week. But we did have a cold front charge through last night, and another reinforcing shot of Canadian air will move through tonight. This will lead to our coldest nights since last April on Sunday and Monday. The National Weather Service has put out
a freeze watch for several Southwest Virginia counties, including the Roanoke and New River valleys. What that simply means is that temperatures could get to 32 or below in the watch area for the first time this season, ending the growing season. It's not an unexpected development for late October -- in fact, the first freeze has usually come and gone by this time -- but the weather service does issue watches and warnings for the first such possible instance of sub-freezing weather as an advisory to farmers and gardeners.
There is some sign that colder air could make a bigger move on us a little more than a week out. We'll come back to that.
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