Freeze Watch issued October 16 at 4:42PM EDT until October 18 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC
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* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s are possible. * WHERE...Portions of north central and western Maryland, central, northwest, and western Virginia, and eastern and panhandle West Virginia. * WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- US
- Severity
- Severe
- area
- Washington; Extreme Western Allegany; Central and Eastern Allegany; Western Garrett; Eastern Garrett; Augusta; Rockingham; Shenandoah; Frederick; Page; Warren; Clarke; Western Highland; Eastern Highland; Northern Virginia Blue Ridge; Central Virginia Blue Ridge; Hampshire; Morgan; Berkeley; Jefferson; Hardy; Western Grant; Eastern Grant; Western Mineral; Eastern Mineral; Western Pendleton; Eastern Pendleton
- event
- Freeze Watch
- onset
- 2026-10-18T01:00:00-04:00
- states
- ["MD","VA","WV"]
- urgency
- Future
- certainty
- Possible
- effective
- 2026-10-16T16:42:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.ae9ad2297219252f7a7db83004932eff2578290a.002.1
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.c8e81bc62386c3fcab1326b66db9490258cb8f3d.001.1"]
- instruction
- Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
- message type
- Update
- location basis
- Approximate: centers of the NWS zones listed in the alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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