Freeze Watch issued for Friday evening into Saturday for Northeast Colorado, the Front Range, and the tri-state region

FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 pm FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH 8 am SATURDAY MORNING. This includes the front range as well as Larimer, Weld, Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Morgan, Lincoln, Logan, Washington, Sedgwick, Phillips, Yuma, Kit Carson, Cheyenne CO, Cheyenne KS, Rawlins, Decatur, Norton, Sherman, Thomas-Sheridan, Graham, Wallace, Logan, Gove, Greeley, Wichita, Dundy, Hitchcock & Red Willow Counties in Colorado and the tri-state area. (Portions of east central and northeast Colorado, northwest and west central Kansas, and southwest Nebraska.)

Watch for prolonged sub-freezing temperatures reaching 18 to 25 degrees.

If not drained or protected, damage to above-ground irrigation lines will likely occur. A hard freeze could kill sensitive vegetation and damage fruit trees. Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation, and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.

Due to a warm early spring, green-up is occurring 2 to 4 weeks earlier than climatological norms, and the growing season has begun.

Disconnect water hoses. Drain above-ground irrigation lines. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.