Did frost kill my plants?

Its almost the middle of May and we’ve been having some incredibly cool temperatures recently. It’s been great weather for an evening bonfire but anything but good on your plants in your landscape. To hammer home the oddity of this recent cold streak, here are some stats for you:

• The last time a freezing temperature at or below 32 degrees was recorded during the last complete month of spring was May 4, 2005.
• Over the last 125 years, there has been a May freeze only 25 times.
• The last freeze has occurred on or after May 9 only 10 times.
• The last time that happened was 40 years ago.
• The latest freeze ever recorded in Dayton, Ohio was May 21, 1907.

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