If you are looking to load produce out of California’s San Joaquin Valley, you’ll need to pay attention to the weather as a damaging freeze is possible beginning tonight (Friday, January 11th) through Monday night (January 14th) and potentially even into the middle of the week.
The low temperatures are particularly possible from Tulure county southward to Kern County, but might even happen in Madera and Fresno counties.
The freeze could be especially harmful to vegetable items and citrus.
The weather guessers are still doing just that – guessing, but it has produce growers getting out their wind machines in case of a worst case scenario. Depending upon which weather forecast you believe, temperatures could hit the low to mid 20s.
Damage depends upon how low the temperatures drop and for how many hours those temps stay below freezing.
Anyway, this is a heads up for produce haulers in California looking for loads in the days ahead – particularly in the San Joaquin Valley.