Freeze Could Damage Apple Crops
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Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2015 · News & Politics
HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. -- A freeze warning will be issued for parts of the mountains on Thursday, which could have a big impact on some budding apple trees. At 28 degrees, 10 percent of blooms can be damaged in just 30 minutes. How much damage the weather inflicts depends how long it stays at 28 or below, how cool or warm it was before, and what stage the crops have reached. Trey Enloe's family lost everything in a 2012 freeze. "[It was] pretty much a total wipe out," Enloe said, a fourth generation apple grower. "There were some of our processing varieties around, but a lot of people got wiped out that year." Enloe says it takes some time to see damage. So he won't know for sure one way or the other until about noon Friday. "We're pretty far along, this is one of the later points of freeze, not the latest, but one of the later, and you've got guys that have put a significant amount of money into their crop already this year. So, a freeze this late would be pretty damaging," Enloe said. His family grows about 100 acres of apples. "With this amount of volume, there's not a whole lot you can do," Enloe said. Really, he can only hope. Enloe's optimistic temperatures won't get too low. He said he's been more concerned about the recent rain _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.
