National Weather Service issues Freeze Warning for much of MA and RI

The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a freeze Warning which is in effect from 10 pm Wednesday, 26 Oct, 2016, to 9 am EDT on Thursday, 27 Oct, 2016.

• Locations: Rhode Island away from the coast and southeast Middlesex county…southern Bristol County…and western
  Plymouth County in Massachusetts.
• Temperatures: in the lower 30s.
• Timing: temperatures will fall below freezing shortly after midnight and stay there through sunrise.
• Impacts: temperatures will be at or below freezing. Sensitive vegetation may be killed…if left unprotected.

Including the cities of:

• Cambridge
• Brockton
• Fall River
• New Bedford
• Foster
• Smithfield
• Providence
• Coventry
• West Greenwich
• East Greenwich
• Warwick
• West Warwick
• Narragansett
• Westerly

Precautionary/preparedness actions: A freeze warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or Highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other Sensitive vegetation.