You can monitor real time weather using the Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN)at http://fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/. FAWN has a Cold Protection Toolkit with the minimum overnight temperature calculated using the Brunt Equation, Wet Bulb based irrigation cut off, and determining the critical temperature for different crops.
If you are in the affected area, please take appropriate actions to protect animals, plant material and crops.
Frost Advisory
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 410 PM EST MON DEC 16 2013 ...FROST ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE NATURE COAST LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... .COOL DRY AIR HAS OVERSPREAD THE AREA AND WITH CLEAR SKIES AND WINDS BECOMING LIGHT TONIGHT FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. FLZ043-139-142-148-239-242-248-171300- /O.NEW.KTBW.FR.Y.0007.131217T0800Z-131217T1300Z/ SUMTER-COASTAL LEVY-COASTAL CITRUS-COASTAL HERNANDO-INLAND LEVY- INLAND CITRUS-INLAND HERNANDO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUSHNELL...THE VILLAGES...CEDAR KEY... YANKEETOWN...CRYSTAL RIVER...HOMOSASSA...HERNANDO BEACH... BAYPORT...CHIEFLAND...BRONSON...WILLISTON...INVERNESS... BROOKSVILLE...SPRING HILL 410 PM EST MON DEC 16 2013 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST TUESDAY. * TEMPERATURE...32 TO 36 DEGREES * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.
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