Protect your cold-sensitive plants like tomatoes and peppers tonight. You can create a cloche by cutting the bottom off a milk jug or 2-gallon container and putting it over your plants for the evening, or you can bring them in. I knew there was a reason I decided to plant tomatoes today...
Issued by The National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington, MD
8 pm EDT, Mon., May. 18, 2009
... FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT TUESDAY...
HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE OVER THE REGION TONIGHT. UNSEASONABLY COOL CONDITIONS ACCOMPANY THE HIGH. AREAS OF FROST CAN BE EXPECTED EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... AS LOW TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE MID 30S UNDER CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.
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