*FREEZE WARNING 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, and Phillips Counties.

*FREEZE WARNING in effect between Midnight & 8 am (MDT) Saturday for Yuma, Kit Carson, and Cheyenne Counties in Colorado.

• 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.