Sleeping Frog Farms - First Fall Frost

Sleeping Frog Farms reported in their last newsletter that the first frost of the Fall occurred there on the morning of October 6th (low here was 39F that morning). The Sleeping Frog is along the San Pedro River north of Benson - photo above. The frost was light but did cause some damage to sweet potato greens and peppers.

Art Douglas reports from Ash Canyon, south of Sierra Vista, include:

First frosts of Fall around Wilcox area and north on the same morning as reported above, which also had temperatures in low 30s in the San Pedro Valley to his east. Strong winds at his place (>40 mph) on both the 9th and 10th of October. Some nearby sites had winds over 50 mph and Art reports some wind damage to trees along and near the east slopes of the Huachuca mountains. Finally, he reported rainfall at his place of 2.33 inches for September, giving him a Jun-Sep total of 16.84 inches.