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Florida Hit by Cold Air Mass
In January,2003,the eastern two.thirds of the United States was at the mercy of a bitterly cold air mass that has endangered Florida’s citrus trees,choked3 northern harbors with ice and left bewildered residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks digging out of up to a foot of snow.
The ice chill deepened as temperatures fell to the single digits in most of the South, with an unfamiliar dip below the freezing mark。as far South as parts of interior South Florida.Temperatures in Florida plunged,with West Palm Beach dropping to a record low of 2 degrees.
“We couldn’t believe how cold it was,”said Martin King,who arrived this week in Orlando from England.“We brought shorts,T-shirt,and I had to go out and buy another coat.”
The temperature plunge posed a threat to Florida’s US$9.1 billion-a-year citrus crop,more of which is still on the trees.Growers were hurrying to harvest as much of the fruit as possible before it was damaged by cold.
for four hours or more.Snow ranging from a dusting to up to 30 centimeters blanketed the Carolinas,Tennessee and parts of Virginia.
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