Frost Warning Tonight (Sat 5th May)

4.8°C outside right now, so tonight looks likes the it's going to be far worse than last night, and much worse than forecast.

 

Glass as in Palram polycarbon single panels 5mm thick

Jack McH

 

Bristol is forecast for +1C too and its very mild out too. As I have put out some Pak Choi and Lettuce I am nervous now

 

+7 here. (West Wales)

 

0.4°C in the back garden a few minutes ago and there's frost on car roofs at the front. Just checked the weather forecast again and the Met Office reduced the overnight min temperature forecast by 4°C after I went to bed last night.


EDIT: It's now 4.8°C outside, so it's risen 4.4°C in 45 mins. I wonder if it will drop again in an hour or so for a 'double dip'?

UPDATE: It went back down to 2.4°C and it's now 5.6°C. Just goes to show the importance of max/min recording as somebody with a standard thermometer could have checked at slightly different times and thought the temperature never shifted much from around 5°C

 

Currently +2 degrees here, no frost was forecast for us but I wasn't taking any chances, spuds were covered again last night, especially after it was a clear sky at dusk..

 

At last,hazy sunshine in Battle. No frost, 8c now at 8am. Have opened up the mini GH on 3" blocks. Got some potting on to do

 

I've been the same. Fleece on fleece off. Sounds like a Karate kid for gardening lol.
We're good for the next couple of nights. I see wednesday where I am has frost again

 

I lost around fifty tobacco plants. I'm gutted! I've got replacements, but everything is getting pot-bound, difficult to water and I've run out of indoor space.

 

I moved everything that was hardening off back into the greenhouse 3 days ago and can't move in there now. Plant's are galloping and for the first time I've had to pot on because of the growth.

Lowest temp over these past few days was 4C overnight but I wasn't prepared to take the risk. It's supposed to be 6C minimum tonight, but I'll put them back out tomorrow, temperature permitting.

 

I've just been looking back through my pics of frost damage taken in May last year and it seems that it was as late as the 17th of May when there were overnight/early morning temps of -3°C.