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Posted: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:20 am

Middle Tennessee saw its first killing frost of the season Sunday night and into Monday morning.

Monday morning's low temperatures were in the upper 20s and lower 30s across most of the mid-state.

A killing frost is cold enough to not only kill ragweed but also plants like geraniums and other ornamentals.

The freeze was especially hard along the Cumberland Plateau and Murfreesboro bottomed out at 30 degrees over night.

The average date of the first killing frost in Rutherford County is Oct. 28. Weather lore suggests that an early killing frost is a sign of bad winter weather.

Last year the first freeze in Nashville occurred on October 29th when the temperature fell to 29 degrees. Nashville’s earliest first freeze on record occurred Oct. 2, 1984 and the latest first freeze in Nashville was recorded Nov. 27, 1902.

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Member Opinions:

By: ojt on 10/19/09
goodbye mosquitos

By: Farmall on 10/19/09
Please tell me it killed off the chiggers. (Harvest Mites)

By: Farmall on 10/21/09
I am sorry to say that as of yesterday evening evening there are still a few mosquitos about.

By: cmac on 10/21/09
Seems mother nature is on her average freeze schedule for October, 2009 even though CO2 levels are around 385 ppm and some are preaching the world will end. Of interest is the date November, 1902 for the latest first freeze in Nashville. There must have been some "global warming" back then despite the fact of much lower levels of atmospheric CO2.