Would you cover tonight in Chuluota / Sanford?

16 years ago

New Year's

Day

Here is the update for my zip (Chuluota) from NWS. 37 tonight and 28 tomorrow night. Although I notice it also says today is to be sunny but when I look out my window I jut see gray!

I am wondering if I should take the risk and wait till tomorrow afternoon to cover up. What are others in this area planning to do?

Thanks,

Anita

Mostly

Sunny

Hi 72Â°F

Tonight

Mostly

Clear

Lo 37Â°F

Wednesday

Windy

Hi 50Â°F

Wednesday Night

Mostly

Clear

Lo 28Â°F

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mrsmitty0_0
16 years ago
I plan to cover the most tender, but definately tomorrow night have all covered. I live north (Jacksonville) in a warmer spot because of river and coastal warming. Seldom frosts and rarely freezes. Still, I plan to bring in potted tender tropicals and I will set the sprinklers tonight for 3 and 5:30 to catch the larger plants tonight but tomorrow night cover everything that can't be moved. We have River warming (St. John's) but I don't trust the cold tomorrow. I expect Sanford will hit under 30 degrees for over 2 hours tomorrow night. I'd suggest doing what I am doing. Also, if you have irrigation or outside pipes you may want to run a slight dripping to keep pipes from freezing tomorrow night.
maries_garden
16 years ago
I would suggest covering up tonight. Wednesday's low can be anytime after midnight tonight, so that 28 degree low can easily happen before you get up tomorrow (Wednesday).

The prediction's similar for my area of Polk County and I am going to cover some plants.

Mary
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manature
16 years ago
The Wednesday low of 38 is predicted to happen after midnight tomorrow, or basically, Thursday morning. Tonight's low is predicted to be 37 or so, so personally, I think most things will be safe with that. I'm not going to cover anything until tomorrow afternoon, Anita. (I'm not an expert, but that makes sense to me.)

Good luck!
Marcia
dirtyhandjeff
16 years ago
Good reminder Mary. You have to be careful listinging to the weather. Overnight low means one thing but tomorrows low could be am or pm.

DHJ
manature
16 years ago
As I mentioned, they are predicting the overnight low for tonight to be 37, some time between now and WEDNESDAY morning, and the overnight low for Wednesday to be 28 (meaning by Thursday morning.) I checked it in at least five places, plus the weatherman just finished saying Wednesday morning would be around 37 and Thursday morning would be 28 for Sanford.

Hope that clarifies better.

Marcia
bsewall
16 years ago
The Weather Underground has a good graphic of how the temperature will vary during the day. I included a link that shows the temperatures for Chuluota on Wednesday.

Here is a link that might be useful: Weather Underground
anitaathome
Original Author
16 years ago
Bsewall:

Thanks for that link! I never saw that site before and found it most interesting.

Anita

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