Arctic high pressure invaded the country this week. Dangerous wind chills from the Midwest to the East coast and a record snowtorm in New Orleans, LA where they got 10 inches of snow. (That's more than we have had here all season.) Snow from Houston to the Florida panhandle. Meanwhile, here in New York and New England it was just plain cold. Nowhere near record, but flirting with -10 degrees F. where I might expect to see some damage to tender fruit (peaches) buds. How cold did it get across Massachusetts NEWA weather stations which are mostly on-farm? -17 to 16 degrees F., the former (Richmond) being in the Berkshires, the latter (Hyannis) down in the Cape Cod banana belt. See what I have to deal with?
Read the rest of what Jon has to say here: https://jmcextman.blogspot.com/2025/01/its-cold-out-there.html