Winter Weather Threat 01/16-01/18

Yep, about to hit freezing here. Last freeze for what looks like maybe the next 10 to 14 days.

Only time I am colder than you Sky is when the weather is leaving to the east.

6:48 on my station....earlier on my other thermometers

Came home last night from Houston, because it was a cloudy day yesterday in Houston there was still ice/snow on portions of roof tops and shady grass areas in the afternoon.
Yesterday my area neighborhood wunderground station reported a low of 27 degrees, the coldest since Dec 2010! My tropical plants took a beating from the 6 hrs of subfreezing temps but thankfully my guava and Mango tree's damage looks to be mainly to the foliage, my Fox Tail Palm tree looks like it was torched, it is not as cold hardy as the queen palms.

We also still have ice on the ground and on covers in northeast Brazoria County, Tx.  We saw 20 on Tuesday morning.  It was hard on the plants!  Not sure anything we covered survived yet, and since it started snowing/sleeting almost immediately at the start of this cold spell, we couldn't get out and cover the citrus trees (they're big enough we start by spreading covers out from the roof of our garage).  I hope just being on the south side of the garage spared them. 

Haven't been able to check the plants we moved into the greenhouse and tool shed, but we had heaters in there ,so fingers crossed.  We lost water in our kitchen for a few hours on Tuesday morning, but it eventually started flowing again after about noon.  We've seen no evidence of busted pipes yet, but everything's not thawed out yet.

It also looks like one of the resident hummingbirds we've had all winter didn't make it through the Wednesday night freeze.    It's been a rough week!