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Fruit Research Laboratory, said as of Tuesday afternoon, “everything is all right. It’s Tuesday night we’re worried about.”
Explaining that temperatures of 27 degrees may kill 10 percent of the peaches, which are now in full bloom, but if the thermometer dips to 24 degrees, the blossom kill will probably rise to 90 percent, Dr. Rollins said.
“Peaches are two to three weeks early,” said Flint Hill orchardist Louis Moore Jr., adding that the tender new blossoms could possibly be insulated by Tuesday’s snow and saved if the temperature doesn’t drop too low. And, “if it doesn’t stay too low,” he said, explaining that the longer the mercury hovers at or below the freezing mark the more danger the blossoms face.
Tuesday’s gusty winds, however, blew away any hope of the wet snow lingering to protect the tender blooms. Sperryville weatherwatcher Dennis Wingfield said his wind gauge recorded sustained wind speeds of between 30 and 35 miles per hour on Tuesday, dropping the wind-chill index to 0 degrees, far lower than the temperature on the thermometer.
But the high winds and snow are not nearly as much of a concern to the orchardists as are the cold temperatures. In fact, the continued winds through the night Tuesday may have saved the fruit blooms from complete destruction by keeping the cold air stirring.
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