{"id":5113,"date":"2013-09-21T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2013-09-21T08:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T12:33:57","slug":"more-about-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/more-about-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"more about frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"frosttomato\"<\/a>I’ve been asked for more numbers about frost in our area… so he is the big picture overview<\/p>\n

The dates of the first light frost (-1 C) over the last 11 years:
\n2002 Oct 21
\n2003 Oct 23
\n2004 Oct 11
\n2005 Oct 20
\n2006 no data
\n2007 Oct 12
\n2008 Oct 06
\n2009 Sep 19
\n2010 Oct 10
\n2011 Sep 17
\n2012 Oct 08
\n2013 Sep 16<\/p>\n

The dates of the last light frost (-1 C) over the last 11 years:
\n2003 Apr 30
\n2004 May 08
\n2005 May 17
\n2006 no data
\n2007 May 18
\n2008 May 05
\n2009 May 13
\n2010 Jun 13
\n2011 Apr 22
\n2012 Apr 30
\n2013 May 14<\/p>\n

The number of growing days between light frosts:
\n2003 176
\n2004 156
\n2005 156
\n2006 no data
\n2007 147
\n2008 154
\n2009 129
\n2010 119
\n2011 149
\n2012 162
\n2013 125
\nYear\t #days\t(#weeks)
\nmin\t\t119\t(17)
\naverage\t\t147\t(21)
\nmax\t\t176\t(25)
\nstddev\t\t17\t(2)<\/p>\n

Notes on the light frost Monday night Sept 16th. It was a long period of below zero temperatures, starting around midnight and runing until sunrise around 7am. All of the tomato plants were killed off. Had it bee na shorter period of time (say maybe an hour), they might have survived.. or at least some of them.
\nHeavy frost we define as -3C and it does kill off most everything else that is not frost tolerant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been asked for more numbers about frost in our area… so he is the big picture overview The dates of the first light frost (-1 C) over the last 11 years: 2002 Oct 21 2003 Oct 23 2004 Oct 11 2005 Oct 20 2006 no data 2007 Oct 12 2008 Oct 06 2009 Sep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}