Vintage 2018: Winter Temperatures

Mother Nature is unpredictable. I started keeping a closer eye on her so that I could remember what each vintage was like and wrote blogposts pertaining to the weather as it affected our vineyard. I collated all those blogposts under a tab called Vintage Notes.
I found it to be a good reminder of what the various years that we have been growing grapes have been like. 2015 was our first full year with a harvest. Today, I'm continuing those vintage notes.
The winter of 2017-2018 started in December with a cold snap just in time for the Christmas holidays. My husband recently downloaded the data from the new Onset HOBO Data Loggers that he installed in December. The data logger logged information from December 8 to February 7 and showed us that we had a few instances of subzero temperatures.

Temperatures that are detrimental to vine survival are prolonged durations of temperatures lower than -10^o F. Since the data logger is showing that the cold dips were not too long, we think that we are okay. The winter of 2014 was unseasonably cold so I researched and wrote a blog on How to Test for Bud Injury, which we referred to
On Saturday February 17th to Sunday morning, February 18th, the forecasters were predicting 3-7 inches of snow in our area. It ended up being 1 inch of snow, and now we are in for a few days of record warmth.