Bitter Cold Fails to Crush Citrus Crop
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From Times Wire Reports
Florida’s $9 billion-a-year citrus crop escaped major damage from an Arctic blast that brought rare snow flurries to Cape Canaveral and shattered record lows as far south as Miami Beach.
Though the mercury dipped as low as 15 degrees in Panama City Beach and 19 degrees in Jacksonville, citrus growers said temperatures in the prime growing region farther south did not fall below 28 degrees for more than four hours, the threshold for damage.
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