Wednesday, March 6, 2013

California Cold snap Threatens $2 Billion Citrus Harvest


The article called " California Cold Snap Threatens $2 Billion Citrus Harvest", by Brandon Lowrey is about the artic air mass pluging temperatures down in California which is harming the lucrative citrus harvest. The temperatures fell as low as 20 degrees below normal. The weather service alerted the farmers to take precautions, but there still might be great loss, meteorologist Jeff Barlow has said. Barlow also said, " This is going to be a pretty significant breeze event for the central California citrus crop."
This bad because the high selling Citrus fruits will be on the line. The farmers would be taking cuts for this because now they wouldn't be able to grow their fruits.  Their crops will be damaged, frozen or even parished.this wouldn't be good at all.
 This reminds me of a time when I bought a water melon seed plant and my mom told me to water my plant before the sun makes is dry. I didn't listen to her and two days later it got dry and died. I was really hoping to grow a water melon to give it to some one and my money went to waste. I should have listened to her because the sun rays ruined it just like how the temperatures in California will ruin the citrus fruits. This will be the worst because people wouldn't be able to get their favorite fruits and this will be terrible.

1 comment:

  1. Are you a big fan of citrus fruits? It's unlikely people will be unable to get fruits, even if the crop is killed. What is likely is that the supply will decrease, increasing the price. 90

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