Cold termperatures are finally heading our way. This artic front is blamed for the unseasonably low temperatures in California. Temperatures on my mother-in-law’s farm in Northern California, reached 11 degrees the other night. She stayed up all night saving plants and trees and running water in the pipes to prevent them from breaking. Every hour or so, she had to hose hot water on her beloved, and old orange trees.

This from the New York Daily News:

An arctic front blamed for the bone-chilling temperatures from California to the Midwest is zeroing in on the city.

Weather experts are warning New Yorkers to bundle up as our so-far mild winter takes its most radical dip of the year.

“Basically, we’re going to see much colder temperatures than we’ve seen all winter, temperatures below normal,” said meteorologist Joe Pollina of the National Weather Service.

Pollina said yesterday’s high of 46 will seem like a beach day as the mercury plunges 10 to 20 degrees this week.

Wednesday is forecast to be the coldest with a high of 32 and a wind chill that will make it feel in the mid-20s.

The weather system produced ice storms that toppled trees, .ruined crops and wreaked havoc on the roads over the weekend throughout Texas and the Midwest. The storm has been blamed for the deaths of 21 people.

In California, temperatures in the mid-20s heavily damaged citrus groves and caused Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency.