DENVER — There have been several late April or early May winter storms on the Front Range that wiped out the majority of fruit blossoms, but this weekend's storm will likely not be that destructive, mainly because the temperatures are not expected to get too cold.
"Generally, I don't worry if it's in the high 20s or low 30s," said arborist Tony Hahn with Denver Commercial Property Services. "If it drops below 25 degrees, that's when I start to worry about the fruit."
The greater concern might be the weight of heavy wet snow on the branches that are holding those fruit blossoms.
A secondary cold front that moved through Friday afternoon set the stage for some snowfall that is forecast to die down on Saturday morning. Most of the metro area is expected to get between 1 to 4 inches of accumulation, but the foothills will get a bit more.
“Because they’re already flowering the snow will catch and hang up on those blossoms and leaves, and then we can get some breakage," Hahn said. "But as far as the fruit producing capabilities, snow and rain actually helps.”
He said that rain and snow physically hitting the blossoms might take some of the pedals off but won’t hurt the fruit blossoms, and if snow or ice were to build up on the blossoms, that would actually help insulate them from the cold.
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