Videocast: Freeze warnings this weekend

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♪ CHRI HI, EVERYBODY. WE ARE BROADCASTING LIVE FROM HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, AT JUSTU ORCHARD. IT SOUNDS FAMILIAR, IS WHERE I GREW UP AND WHERE I GOT INTERESTED IN METEOROLOGY FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE. I WANT T BRING IN MY DAD. AMONG LIFE LESSONS, DAD, YOU TAUGHT ME NIGHTS LIKE THIS IN MAY OUR TROUBLE FOR ORCHARDS. >> THAT IS RIGHT. WEATHER LIKE WE ARE HAVING, LIKE YOU ARE PREDICTING THIS WEEK, NOT ONLY ON OUR FARM, BUT ALL THE FARMS HERE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, THIS WEATHER CAN MAKE OR BREAK OUR ENTIRE SEASON. CHRIS: YOU HAVE THOSE APPLE BUDS BESIDE YOU, THEY ARE SO TENDER AND VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW. DON: THAT’S RIGHT. IF WE HAD A HEAV FROST, IT COULD DAMAGE THE APPLES TO WHERE THEY A MISSHAPEN, THEY WOULD COME OUT LOOKING LIKE A PUMPKIN, WITH RIDGES ON IT OR SOMETHING. THEY MAY NOT AS PRETTY, BUT THEY WOULD STILL HAVE GOOD FLAVOR TO THEM. NOW, IF WE HAVE A HARD FREEZE, WHERE IT GETS DOWN TO 25 DEGREES, THAT COULD BE DEVASTATING, NOT ONLY TO US, BUT TO EVERYBODY AROUND HERE THAT GROWS APPLES, AND ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT DEPEND ON THE CUSTOMERS THAT WE BRING IN. CHRIS: 25 IS THAT CRITICAL TEMPERATURE. WE ARE THINKING THINGS ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE WARMER THAN THAT. THANK YOU, DAD. WIND IS ANOTHER THING. WIND CAN HELP US OUT AND IT IS AWFULLY WINDY RIGHT NOW. WE EXPECT GUSTS UP TO 25 CALLS PER HOUR TONIGHT. THAT KEEPS THE FROST FROM SETTLING, THE GOOD THING HERE. IT IS SO WINDY AND SO COLD, LIVE DOPPLER IS SHOWING RAIN RIGHT NOW AND THAT SHOULD CHANGE TO SNOW LATER, ESPECIALLY HIGHER ELEVATIONS. MAYBE FLURRIES IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF HENDERSON COUNTY, BUT SNOW WILL BE CONFINED TO THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS, 5000 FEET. TEMPERATURES ARE PLUMMETING. FROM THE TIME WE GOT HERE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON, UPPER 50’S, WE HAVE SINCE COOLED DOWN TO THE LOWER 40’S HERE AT THE FARM 53 IN DOWNTOWN HENDERSONVILLE, 55 GREENVILLE. THE FORECAST TONIGHT, IT WILL BE A COLD ONE, EVEN IN THE UPSTATE I AM EXPECTING THE 30’S. SO YOU PROBABLY WANT TO COVER YOUR TENDER PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN WITH A LIGHT, COTTON SHEET TO PROTECT THEM. IN THE MOUNTAINS WE ARE EXPECTING THE LOW 30’S, BUT NOTHING COLDEST NIGHT OF THE WEEK. LET ME SHOW YOU THE FOUR-DAY FORECAST, LOADS OF SUNSHINE AND CLEAR SKIES BEHIND THE RAIN THIS EVENING. WHEN THIS CLEARS, WE ARE IN FOR A NICE STREAK. MOTHER’S DAY IS GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL. BUT STARTING IN THE MORNING AT 39 DEGREES. INTO NEXT WEEK, WE WARM UP GRADUALLY INTO THE 70’S AND 80’S, BUT THE CONCERN NOW IS FOR THE FROST. LET ME SHOW YOU THE MOUNTAINS, TEMPERATURES TONIGHT FALLING CLOSE TO THE FREEZING MARK, AND ESPECIALLY MOTHER’S DAY MORNING. THAT IS WHEN WE ARE EXPECTING THE COLDEST AIR TO MOVE IN. I THINK WE WILL BE ABOVE THAT FREEZE WERE 25 DEGREES WOULD WIPE OUT EVERY APPLE IN THIS ORCHARD, BUT FROST WOULD BE A CONCERN. MY DAD WAS SAYING FROST COULD DEFORM THE APPLES. YOU DON’T WANT THAT. SO WE WILL KEEP A CLOSE WATCH AND KEEP YOU UP TO DATE EACH DAY. UNTIL THEN, WE LOOK FORWARD TO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, ALMOST 80 DEGREES BY THIS TIME

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