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Pat Shingleton: "The First Frost and A Snowstorm"
Monday morning the mercury slipped to 32 to post the coldest morning this season. Your weather team provided alerts with Freeze Watches and Warnings, issued for sections of the viewing area. We also identified the differences in frost scenarios and for future episodes we noted that a freeze is defined as a period of time when the surface temperature of a whole air mass remains below freezing. When tender plants aren't affected, it's an example of light frost. The most destructive frost to vegetation is a killing frost while black frost or hard frost hits northern areas in late autumn when temperatures are consistently below freezing. A hard frost will cause leaf edges and plant tips to turn black as if they were burnt. I also noticed that a major snowstorm bopped the northeast including Pennsylvania and sections of West Virginia. It reminded me of an incident that occurred in my younger years pf television. From 1979 through 1981, I commuted to Pittsburgh from Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Pittsburgh Fort Pitt
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