John in La: The current temperature is only 18 going down to 14-15. The temperatures tomorrow will top out at 25 degrees. Then get down into the low teens again tomorrow night. By Wednesday morning the frost will be 5-6 inches deep, maybe more.
Maybe it will warm up again to thaw the frost out so we can do field tillage work but it might not either.
If we do not get much snow and the weather stays cold we can easily get frost 1-2 feet thick even in December. By late winter any water lines under four feet maybe froze until spring. Under drive ways and pavement I have seen lines freeze at 6-8 feet in really long cold spells.
My son just text me and said the frost is 2-3 inches thick right now, on average. He did say the north side of one field was thick enough the ripper would trip too often. So he had to just forget the north facing slope.
Also the sun will make the top of frozen ground thaw just a little bit. It will get slick like solid ice. Often even in earlier cold spell you can not run after the sun comes out and makes the ground slick but you can run as soon as the sun goes down for an hour or so.
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