Oh yeah, this has happened before. Orange tree crops can freeze on the tree, and it's happened for several decades that I'm aware of. Living in east Tennessee, we get these arctic blasts at least once a winter, and the Florida orange growers have learned a trick to spray water on the oranges in the trees, it freezes into ice and somehow protects the oranges from the worst of the cold. Don't ask me how that works, I just know that's what orange growers do to protect their crops from arctic blasts.
What happens is that the liquid water on the outside of the orange needs to freeze first and acts like temporary insulation for the orange and buys it a little time. It'll work for a day or so before the orange itself cools down to freezing.
So to anyone wondering where the phrase "freeze the balls off of a brass monkey" originates, a monkey was a term for a metal plate with holes that cannonballs would rest in to keep them rolling about. Since brass and iron have different rates of expansion during temperature swings when it got really cold the plate could shrink enough to cause the cannonballs to no longer fit in the holes and pop out.
GlooooOOOOBAAALLlll wwWwaRRMmiNGGG
We're circling back to the global cooling narrative of the 1970s.
You really bring those 2 words to life..
It's why they call it "climate change", basically it's an umbrella term for both global warming and cooling.
The map is set to perceived temp. ( includes wind)
No it isnt.
Ok, I can confirm is 20 deg warmer then the map show where I am at and 16 degrees warmer for last nights low and tonight's low.
Notice that it's set for Saturday
Yep, chatted with a friend in Florida yesterday and couldn't believe her temp was only a few degrees off of Ohio temps.
Well it will be about 30-40 degrees difference come Saturday lol. My area is forecasting -6 low wind chill as low as -28.
Huge winds! Anything outside is gonna freeze hard!
Hopefully it kills off the bugs!
Oh yeah, this has happened before. Orange tree crops can freeze on the tree, and it's happened for several decades that I'm aware of. Living in east Tennessee, we get these arctic blasts at least once a winter, and the Florida orange growers have learned a trick to spray water on the oranges in the trees, it freezes into ice and somehow protects the oranges from the worst of the cold. Don't ask me how that works, I just know that's what orange growers do to protect their crops from arctic blasts.
What happens is that the liquid water on the outside of the orange needs to freeze first and acts like temporary insulation for the orange and buys it a little time. It'll work for a day or so before the orange itself cools down to freezing.
THANK YOU! That makes sense.
Solar Minimum. Ice age a coming
Grand Solar Minimum
Exactlh
Well, in frost punk the only thing keeping folks alive is burning coal!! 👍🏻
Lived in Florida long time. Late 80s 5” of snow in Gainesville. It happens every decade or two.
Probably lines up with solar minimum, which we're in now.
I myself have seen early winter 30 degree temperatures in northern Florida within the past decade.
I live in Houston... and just saw a whole truckload of Brass Monkeys heading South!
beastie boys entered the chat "BRAAAASS MONKEY! THAT FUNKY MONKEY"
So to anyone wondering where the phrase "freeze the balls off of a brass monkey" originates, a monkey was a term for a metal plate with holes that cannonballs would rest in to keep them rolling about. Since brass and iron have different rates of expansion during temperature swings when it got really cold the plate could shrink enough to cause the cannonballs to no longer fit in the holes and pop out.
I agree and believe they did the same to Texas this time last year.
A pattern is forming.
2021 Texas power crisis was Joe Biden test driving the weather machine...
Wonder what this will do to natural gas.
Nah...it's all global warming factors...yeah, that's it...