Weather Break

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At this time of year, you will often see that your local meteorologists are informing you that the National Weather Service has issued a “Frost Warning” or a “Freeze Warning” or a “Freeze Advisory” or some similar kind of statement.  These messages are intended primarily for agribusiness and horticulture purposes, as a cold night like the one that is expected will apparently bring about an end to the growing season.  In November, this can be a pretty tricky forecast, but in January or February, it would be a LOT easier to figure out whether or not it was going to freeze (almost certainly, the answer would be “yes”).  Why doesn’t the National Weather Service issue frost and freezes warnings in the winter?  We asked meteorologist Steve Byrd, and he tells us all about it on today’s episode of Weather Break.

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WeatherBug provides this relatively informal definition of “Frost and Freeze Warnings”.