Issued 01/03/01 11:00 AM The tentative state cold spot was 16 deg. at
Alachua in the north. Citra had 24 deg. and Brooksville 27 in north central
and Plant City 31 deg. in central, the southern extent of the subfreezing
line this morning.
Expect a light advection freeze into the citrus growing areas of south
central/northern Everglades for Thursday morning 01/04/01. Tentatively
expect a hard radiative freeze into the citrus growing areas of south
central/northern Everglades and a light to moderate freeze in the truck crop
vegetable areas of the southern Everglades on Friday morning 01/05/01.
For Friday morning perfect radiative cooling conditions in conjunction with
low dewpoints are expected across the peninsula, allowing minimum
temperatures to fall below levels normally supported by existing 850 mb
temperatures, which should be around 0 deg. celsius at Ft. Myers on
Thursday. Similar conditions created the alleged "suprise freeze" in January
1997, that wiped out the complete truck vegetable crop in the southern
Everglades.
There is a tendency to overemphasize cold weather impact on citrus crops in
Florida and ignore vegetable crops, which have been king in Florida
agriculture now for a long time. If the citrus industry still existed in
central areas of the peninsula, as it one did before global warming
:<)forced it south during the last 25 years, it would have been heavily
damaged during the present series of coldwaves.
Take Care,
Thomas F. Giella
P.O. Box 1987
Plant City, Fl. 33564
Email: tgiellaweather{at}hotmail.com
Phone: 813-764-9555
Fax: 813-764-8468
Thomas Giella Weather Forecasting And Consulting Services:
http://giellaweather.tripod.com
Plant City Fl. Area Business Links:
http://kn4lf.tripod.com/index-15.html
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