Vermont Frost And Freeze Tonight: Cover The Garden And/Or Say Goodbye To It

Frost and freeze warnings are up for tonight across Vermont.
We'll also have the same problem tomorrow night. 

If you still have some enticing looking veggies in  your garden, even if they're not quite mature yet, today would be an excellent opportunity to do what I call an Emergency Frost Harvest. 

Most of Vermont and surrounding areas are in for a freeze, or at least a frost tonight. And tomorrow night. 

We're in a generally chilly weather pattern and so we have a cold, dry high pressure system coming down from Canada. 

While you're frantically harvesting your crops today, a crisp wind will hold temperatures down in the 50s. Tonight, the wind will diminish and any lingering high clouds left behind will evaporate. That will set the stage for a big temperature plunge.

I can only think of a very few places that will escape frost. Those of you who are very close to Lake Champlain have a good shot of staying frost-free. But even on the Lake Champlain islands, it might get cold enough for some frost if you're inland from the lake more than 100 feet or so.

 It's possible high clouds might linger in far southern Vermont, which might, maybe, hold temperatures barely high enough to keep flowers and veggies safe.  A frost advisory is up for all of the Champlain Valley as low temperatures tonight drop to near or just a degree or two above freezing.

Note that you can still get frost when the official temperature is in the mid 30s. Ground level is a little colder than five feet up, where we look at the temperature.

Things will be the worst well inland from Lake Champlain. A freeze warning is up for most of the rest of Vermont as temperatures are expected to go below 32 degrees.

The Northeast Kingdom and the Adirondacks of New York aren't under any kind of frost or freeze alerts because the growing season has already ended in those areas. So a freeze warning is pointless there. 

It's rinse and repeat, or I should say freeze and repeat tomorrow night, as temperatures will probably be just as cold Tuesday morning as they will be early Monday. 

It'll warm up nicely, but briefly during the middle of the upcoming week. But an even stronger cold front and stronger blast of cold air than the one coming in now is due by next Friday or so.