These are the tough freeze warnings – just when everything is soaked with rain. A few precautionary tactics:
1. Christmas lights on the citrus trees and around tender plants / pls ensure waterproof or GFCI connections for outdoor plugs
2. Frost fabric
3. Cloud Cover or Wilt Pruf sprays / I have not used, though understand it is helpful. Unsure of its effect if applied on wet foliage, however. http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/forum/38935.html
From National Weather Service:
NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS-
EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-
SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO-
323 AM PST TUE NOV 23 2010
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A
FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM PST
WEDNESDAY. A FREEZE WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FREEZE WATCH
IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
* TEMPERATURES: OVERNIGHT MINIMUM TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO
RANGE FROM THE MID 20S IN THE COLDEST WIND SHELTERED VALLEYS TO
THE LOWER 30S IN URBAN AREAS. DURATIONS BELOW FREEZING OF UP TO
4 HOURS OR MORE WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE COLDEST AREAS.
* TIMING: LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING...AND
AGAIN LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS: TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW 28 DEGREES CAN DAMAGE OR KILL
SENSITIVE VEGETATION.
Jae Koenig
Principal
Ethos Landscape LLC
ethos: (n) the genius in a system (it's the microbes!)
(415) 720-8145 c
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