Jan 26 winter storm

[8B palms]

I just wanted to say I hope everyone in the path of this nasty winter storm is safe and here’s hoping everyone’s palms and other tropicals make it through. 

[ZPalms]

Were getting freezing rain here, I'm about to head out and start covering and weather proofing the palms! good luck to everyone!

[N8ALLRIGHT]

Currently 4 degrees here. Snow hasn't started yet but they are expecting 4 to 8 inches in the area.  No freezing rain for us.  Palms are wrapped and heated. I've got a yucca rostrata on its own for it's first season so we will see.  Hopefully this winter episode is over hyped and we see less ice than some spots are in line for 🤞

Good luck everyone and hopefully everybody's power stays up

[ryjohn]

It’s going to be bad here in Northeast Louisiana.  Ice storm and probably not going above freezing until Tuesday once it goes below 32 tonight (It’s 35F as of 10:30 and falling).  I’m not protecting anything except a young tree fern… hopefully we keep electricity.

[Allen]

We’re ready for it

[NC-Key-Bar]

I wrapped my first-year Washingtonias - they had already taken a beating in December hitting 15F, now looking at a 7 day stretch with lows between 13-22F, and barely getting above freezing as a high. Possible 0.75 inch of ice. This will be a stress test for anything claiming hardiness to 8b! Unprotected plants include S. palmettos, Butia, multiple windmills, oleanders, and other agaves and cycads.
Good luck everyone!

[Allen]

2 hours ago, NC-Key-Bar said:

I wrapped my first-year Washingtonias - they had already taken a beating in December hitting 15F, now looking at a 7 day stretch with lows between 13-22F, and barely getting above freezing as a high. Possible 0.75 inch of ice. This will be a stress test for anything claiming hardiness to 8b! Unprotected plants include S. palmettos, Butia, multiple windmills, oleanders, and other agaves and cycads.
Good luck everyone!

Wrap butia at 13F and ice, At 13F and .75 ICE windmills and palmetto will benefit from wrapping fronds to keep from breaking or at a minimum wrapping hand towel or frost cloth around spear area and removing after event

[Las Palmas Norte]

On 1/23/2026 at 1:48 PM, ZPalms said:

Were getting freezing rain here, I'm about to head out and start covering and weather proofing the palms! good luck to everyone!

How long is the wintery weather/storm expected to persist? Hopefully you guys don't fair too bad over this.

[ZPalms]

3 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

How long is the wintery weather/storm expected to persist? Hopefully you guys don't fair too bad over this.

It’s supposed to be on and off tomorrow and trail off into early Monday, I got everything wrapped and weather proof so nothing should snap and burns. Will see how things do

[Las Palmas Norte]

2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

It’s supposed to be on and off tomorrow and trail off into early Monday, I got everything wrapped and weather proof so nothing should snap and burns. Will see how things do

Sounds like a flash in the pan. 👍

[SeanK]

Atlanta; NE sleet, freezing rain. We DO have power at 8AM Sunday.

[JohnAndSancho]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT790fzjrpL/?igsh=enh2MXFmanFtbmVk

 

Welp. I had posed a question about covering some outdoor palms for the freeze but, as Palmtalk's resident dumbass, I think I've waited too long since everything is freaking drenched now so all I'd be doing is sealing the ice in. 

[NC-Key-Bar]

 At a solid .25 inches of ice on everything. I added frost cloth to a few small palms yesterday (after @Allen comment).  The biggest test will be this coming week - with lows in the teens.   A little bit of freezing rain still in the forecast tonight. 
featured plants include a beautiful Magnolia by our home, some small Sabals, Agave ovatifolia, Illicium, Eucalyptus, trachys, and a Agave bracetosa

[ryjohn]

It’s brutal here in Louisiana.  That white stuff is ice not snow unfortunately.

[Las Palmas Norte]

2 hours ago, ryjohn said:

It’s brutal here in Louisiana. ...

That's some nasty stuff there. Yikes!

[ryjohn]

Right.  This event will likely be 50+ hours below freezing where the first two days were almost continuous freezing rain and sleet— literal thunderstorms of heavy ice downpour toward the end.  The ultimate low is now looking maybe to be only 18F, but something tells me that Jubaea is in danger.  At least half the live oaks in this area are destroyed.  River birches were universally broken to bits.