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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
805 AM EST SAT NOV 7 2009

...GROWING SEASON ENDS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW YORK AND
NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...

SEVERAL HOURS OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ACROSS THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES THIS MORNING...ENDING THE GROWING SEASON IN
THESE AREAS...

IN NEW YORK...

NASSAU...SUFFOLK AND SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER. 

IN NEW JERSEY...

BERGEN...ESSEX...EASTERN PASSAIC AND UNION. 

THE GROWING SEASON ENDS IN A PARTICULAR AREA WHEN FREEZING
TEMPERATURES OCCUR FOR 3 HOURS OR MORE OVER AT LEAST HALF OF THAT
AREA...OR THE AVERAGE DATE OF THE FIRST AUTUMN FREEZE FOR THAT
AREA IS SURPASSED BY TWO WEEKS.

FREEZE WARNINGS AND FROST ADVISORIES WILL NO LONGER BE ISSUED FOR
THESE AREAS UNTIL THE 2010 GROWING SEASON BEGINS. 

THE GROWING SEASON TYPICALLY STARTS ON THE AVERAGE DATE OF THE
LAST SPRING FREEZE...OR SOONER IF AN ANOMALOUSLY WARM PATTERN
SETS UP IN THE SPRING.

ASSUMING A FREEZE DOES NOT OCCUR SOONER...HERE ARE THE DATES FOR
THE END OF THE GROWING SEASON FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...

IN NEW YORK...

NEW YORK CITY 5 BOROUGHS...11/24

IN NEW JERSEY...

HUDSON.....................11/24

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