Frost advisory issued for late Monday, early Tuesday
The National Weather Service has just issued its second frost advisory in as many days for the Louisville metro area and beyond. This time the advisory extends from Southern Indiana all the way through...
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Everyone should see frost if not a freeze early Thursday plus some tips to...
Screenshot from NOAA website (Click for more info) This time it looks like the threat is real — if you have not yet seen frost this season, you are likely to see it tonight, bringing an end to the 2012...
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Garden season 2013 has begun despite the snow today
It’s March 1, 2013 and it’s snowing this morning, albeit the temperature remains above freezing. You remember last year at this time, the weather was anything but snow, as some of the fiercest...
View ArticleIs this March really that cold? Compared to years past, you bet
One thing for certain around these parts, March always runs hot and cold. I love looking back at this blog to see what I wrote in year’s past in terms of when things were planted and what the weather...
View ArticleFinally the weekend for which we have all been waiting
And no, I do not mean the Final Four. I mean dry, warm weather — T-shirt wearing, dirt diggin’ weather. Based on previous years, the Louisville gardening season is about a month behind schedule. Based...
View ArticleFrom mid-80s to freezing in 48 hours
Remember the 85 degrees from Thursday afternoon? Seems like a dream now as our weather has returned to cold and raw with a daytime high Friday around 45. And now the National Weather Service is warning...
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Mother’s Day frost warning not without precedence
It seems almost unfathomable that on May 12 we are talking about possible frost tonight and the potential for an actual freeze in some of the colder areas of the Louisville metro. A list of...
View ArticleFrom frost warnings to your annual do not till warning
I usually write this post in mid-April, not mid-May, so that should tell you just how cold and wet it has been this season and to think a few days ago we were discussing possible frosts and even...
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Late summer heat a peril for fall crops
It figures that summer, or rather summer heat, would finally arrive in Louisville the day after I planted fall broccoli and lettuce starts. The timing, while not great, is not fatal for those of us...
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Out of hibernation to remember the Big Snow
YAWN. Like the groundhog, I am coming out of hibernation, but not to see my shadow, but to recall a darker time in Louisville weather history — the Big Snow and Cold of 1994. According to the National...
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