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Fri, Dec 31, 10 at 11:20
| Frost on the cars, ice on the top of some pans of water I had out to catch rainwater, the thermometer read exactly 32.0 degrees F this morning here in north OC. Frost on the grass and leaves of many plants too. Will have to see if it killed any non frost resistant plants or my avocado or citrus trees. But they should survive if this is as bad as it gets. Would probably take a real hard freeze like 27 degrees for several hours to kill them. |
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| Wow! Im in central OC. It was pretty cold, but i didn't see any sighs of ice. |
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| Don't worry about the citrus trees. Would have to take many hours of much lower temps to outright kill them. I have several citrus( Eureka Lemon, Meyer Lemon, Bearrs Lime, Valencia and Washington Oranges) growing in my yard here in Sacramento where we go down to 32 or a bit lower periodically each winter and the trees and fruit are fine. The fruits usually start to get damaged at several hours under 27 or 28 , but it would take quite a few hours down in the teens to kill the tree. If you're talking about a small young newly planted tree then that would be more sensitive of course. |
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