so much for spring →[More:]
It has not frosted in about a month here. Most stuff is leafed out, a lot of people have already planted gardens, peaches and other crops have already bloomed/set fruit, etc. My bamboo is starting to shoot (by starting I mean that I counted about 100 little pointy shoots sticking out of the ground an inch or two), I have various annuals coming up from seed here and there in the garden... and out of nowhere we get this monster cold front.
Yesterday it was 82 and today it is 59. And it is getting worse and worse as they change the forecast. They were saying it would hit 32 one night. Now they are saying it will be below freezing every night starting tonight and on Saturday night it will drop to 20f. Tonight's freeze will kill everybody's tomatoes and other garden veggies but when it hits 20 degrees it will kill a bunch of other plants and seriously set back the rest. People with big peach orchards are probably about ready to hang themselves.
It did this a few years ago but it only hit 25 after a month of warm weather and THAT killed quite a few things in my yard that can normally take lows below zero because they were already putting all of their energy into spring growth and then they just never recovered from getting zapped by the cold unexpectedly like that.