We have a frost/freeze warning for the area tonight. I am expecting mid 30s with frost here. I put the key limes and container bananas inside and covered the dragon fruits and pineapples.

Same here, supposed to hit 36F tonight then warming back up starting tomorrow.

We have have 7 or 8 freezes already this year. Last night got down to 20F. - Millet

It is still as warm as summer today, low 80's for the highs and low 50's for the lows.

But all that is going to change this halloween. It is going to rain. The lows would be in the mid 40's next week. It would be at least two weeks before a chance of frost.

It is really uncommon for us to get a frost this early. Usually we don't get a frost until mid - late December.

Hit 37F last night, no frost. Temps heading back up to normal now.

At this time, if an arctic blast (wayward mass of cold air from Alaska or the arctic seas) ended up blowing here before the normal frosts arrive, there would be massive damages to unprotected citruses in Northern California, and the temps need not even be freezing.

There were very small patches of frost in an open field near here, but none in my yard. It is unusual to get frost this early- Dec is our usual first frost, but this was not a real killing- hard frost.

wow that is very cold for Florida this time of the year, it was 28 in massachusetts last night

We broke a fifty year record in my area yesterday morning. Went to 30 with a hard frost. We normally get our first around the first of December. I'm not finished with the greenhouse rebuild so had to shove all my cold tender container citrus into the workshop.

.....Alan.

This is weird...where I'm at -- close to Lake Michigan ( which keeps temps up in winter & down in summer), we have not hit frost temps yet.
Up north & west of here got frost at least a few times already, but not here.
Funny that FL and SC had frost before me!!!!
BTW, all my plants are in sunroom since last week when they called for frost. They got it North & West of the lake.
Alan, hurry up with that greenhouse!!!

Patty, you are right--and central FL got colder than North FL---the world is upside down!

I think you're closer to the coast than I am Skeeter which makes a difference. It was an astonishingly early frost though. Next year I'm going to have the greenhouse ready BEFORE the end of October. Probably won't have a frost that early again for the rest of my life then! {laughing}

.....Alan.

My cold hardy citrus did well with temps around 20> They only had passive protection. Just 4 more months of cold weather and I am all set!

Frank

East side MKE got first frost last night. At Mike's house last night (30 miles NW of my house), it got down to 17 -the grass looked grey from frost this am. I'm sure here at my house it was in 20's. And to think, one week ago we had day temps in 70's -- broke 2 records!
I just hope we don't get the same 100 inches of snow as last winter.