A late season cold snap resulted in record cold temperatures across the eastern half of the United States with record cold temperatures for the month of April and record late freezes reported locally.
Univ of Georgia Ag Agent.   Eighty percent of the blueberry crop was lost during the Easter weekend freeze.  11k acres are normally cultivated with blueberries with an average yield of 4m lb from the county.  Losses are likely to exceed $5M in this county alone. Pecans and blackberry also suffered damage but those losses are unknown at this time.
Ware and Clinch Counties...Indications are that Ware and Clinch Counties experienced an 80% crop loss with the Rabbiteye Blueberries (these are the later varieties.) The earlier Highbush Blueberries seemed to be almost undamaged due to overhead irrigation freeze protection measures.
Similar unconfirmed damage has been reported across most of southeast Georgia.

Cold/Wind Chill in BACON, GEORGIA
From 07-APR-07 21:00:00 to 08-APR-07 09:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: AWOS

A record low temperature for the date and the month of April
was set at Alma, Georgia on the morning of April 8th. The low temperature of 30 degrees set the new record low temperature for both the date and month. The previous low temperature for this date was 34 in 1950 and for the month of April the previous record low temperature for the month was 31 in 1987.

Frost/Freeze in WARE, GEORGIA
From 07-APR-07 21:00:00 to 08-APR-07 09:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: County Official

Univ of Georgia Ag Agent.   Eighty percent of the blueberry crop was lost during the Easter weekend freeze.  11k acres are normally cultivated with blueberries with an average yield of 4m lb from the county.  Losses are likely to exceed $5M in this county alone. Pecans and blackberry also suffered damage but those losses are unknown at this time.
Ware and Clinch Counties...All indications are that Ware and Clinchcounties experienced an 80% crop loss with the Rabbiteye Blueberries (these are the later varieties.) The earlier Highbush seemed to make it out almost undamaged because of overhead irrigation freeze protection measures.

Frost/Freeze in APPLING, GEORGIA
From 07-APR-07 21:00:00 to 08-APR-07 09:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 5.00M
Reported by: County Official

Univ of Georgia Ag Agent.   Eighty percent of the blueberry crop was lost during the Easter weekend freeze.  11k acres are normally cultivated with blueberries with an average yield of 4m lb from the county.  Losses are likely to exceed $5M in this county alone. Pecans and blackberry also suffered damage but those losses are unknown at this time.
Ware and Clinch Counties...All indications are that Ware and Clinchcounties experienced an 80% crop loss with the Rabbiteye Blueberries (these are the later varieties.) The earlier Highbush seemed to make it out almost undamaged because of overhead irrigation freeze protection measures.

Frost/Freeze in CLINCH, GEORGIA
From 07-APR-07 21:00:00 to 08-APR-07 09:00:00 (EST-5)
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: County Official

Univ of Georgia Ag Agent.   Eighty percent of the blueberry crop was lost during the Easter weekend freeze.  11k acres are normally cultivated with blueberries with an average yield of 4m lb from the county.  Losses are likely to exceed $5M in this county alone. Pecans and blackberry also suffered damage but those losses are unknown at this time.
Ware and Clinch Counties...All indications are that Ware and Clinchcounties experienced an 80% crop loss with the Rabbiteye Blueberries (these are the later varieties.) The earlier Highbush seemed to make it out almost undamaged because of overhead irrigation freeze protection measures.