Oh, Great
The camellias have just started blooming and we are scheduled for a hard freeze on Wednesday night/Thursday morning with a low around 23°F. The cold won’t kill the bush, but it will ‘burn’ the buds causing the edges of the blooms to be brown. This is a major bummer as the blooms look like very large roses. [I’ll try to remember to take some pictures tomorrow.]
It looks like we will only get one day of below freezing temperatures, but it is always annoying as the older local houses aren’t built for these temperatures.
The National Weather Service won’t issue a Hard Freeze Warning until Wednesday afternoon or evening so people will be trying to protect plants and get pets inside in the dark. I have no idea why they do things this way, but that’s the way it works.
The weather is also disrupting life in Australia as fire fighters are working like crazy to contain as much of the current bushfires as they can before the high temperature/low humidity conditions move into the affected area on the local Wednesday [tomorrow for the US time zones because of the International Date Line].
January 5, 2015 12 Comments
