-3 tonight.

[boarderbloke]

Set an indoor/outdoor thermometer outside last night on a upside down 5 gal pail. It was an open area on the lawn. Reads -2.1 on the indoor and -1.1 on the outdoor. The metal sensor on the outdoor was off the pail and not touching the plastic. No idea really on the length of the freezing temps. Would the reading at 18" above the ground read colder than say 2" above? Aren't official weather stations taking there readings at 48" above the ground surface? A little bit concerned this morning, as readings may have been colder out in the field rather than the yard.
How is everyone else monitoring the temp when we have these situations, do you just go be the thermometer on the house?

[furrowtickler]

Yesterday morning local readings were 0 to -1 at "weather stations" and in my yard . Out in every field I went to it was -3 to -4 just above ground level from 4:30 to 6:30 . Again coldest readings were from sunrise till 6 or 6:30 depending on location .

[furrowtickler]

There were a lot of guys surprised on how much damage on some field at only 0 or -1 at their house. Even local weather stations as you said did not pick up the coldest air just above soil surface .
Damage here seems to be realy random , if it got wacked at the end of mid may frosts then again yesterday most is already gone . The other canola that has emerged after mid may frosts is highly variable - some ok some torched some not hardly touched. I think it realy deepened on the air temp just above soil surface for those 3 hrs or so .

[HappyFarmer]

Thanks furrow. Most of it had been zero tilled into field were the straw was taken off last fall. The rest field were worked black before seeding.

[HappyFarmer]

Thanks furrow. Most of it had been zero tilled into field were the straw was taken off last fall. The rest field were worked black before seeding.

[agstar77]

Ice in standing water , garden corn frozen, garden beans frozen. Soybeans just emerging look okay for the most part. I have not checked local reseeded canola. Was only 0.

[furrowtickler]

Surface temps on our black pea stubble were just below zero ,and on the wheat stubble -2 to -3

[blueversi]

Thermometer recorded a low of -5.6 here, was 0 at 10 pm. Definitely would have needed a sc****r for truck window at 6 this morning.

[fjlip]

Canola appears to survive -3.5C, 90% okay at noon. Some obviously toast, randomly beside good ones. Seeded May 20-22, just emerged.

[Hopperbin]

Klause what did your thermometer show this mornin? Mine was 0. No frosfrost on windows in yard but water truck in field needed scraping. And 10 later of ice come out the 3 inch line. Spraying authority and glypho. Peas popping out in record 7 days.

[Klause]

The one at the house read 1 when I got up at 5 30 but the digital which is out in the horse pasture said it got to a low of -3.1 not as much ice on the troughs this morning as yesterday morning though.


Our flax has burnt edges on the leaves but the plants look alive.

[riders2010]

Does authority have any effect on thistle?