Widespread freeze, frost ends growing seasonPosted Oct29, 2007 at 12:21 PMThe National Weather Service in Blacksburg notes that temperatures fell to freezing and widespread frost occurred from the Blue Ridge westward overnight, so the growing season has ended in those areas. Even the official temperature at the Roanoke Regional Airport fell to 32 degrees this morning. Frost and freeze warnings will not be issued the remainder of this year for the areas where the growing season has ended, but a freeze warning is up for areas south and east of Roanoke where temperatures were a little warmer last night but likely to go to 32 or below tonight. Click here for the latest from the National Weather Service. For Roanoke, the latest first freeze on record was in 2002 when it did not occur until Nov. 19. The earliest first freeze was in 1994 when it occurred on Oct. 1. Last year's first freeze was on Oct. 15. |
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States." .....Advertisement.....
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