Photos: Southern California’s Freezing Temperature Could Damage Fruits

An orange orchard in the Southern California.

The freezing temperature in Southern California can damage the fruits grown in the orchards such as oranges, avocados and strawberries.

Farmers use wind machine and spraying water to save the ripening fruits from frozen.

The icicles caused by the frozen water are very beautiful. (Please click here for photos of beautiful icicles on ripening strawberries and oranges during a cold snap in Florida in early January 2010.)

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Icicles develop along a brick wall and on bushes as water from the sprinkler system freezes at a home on the corner of Willow Street and Peach Avenue in Hesperia, Calif, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2012. The extreme chill in the West comes as the eastern U.S., from Atlanta to New York City, is seeing spring-like weather. Photo: The Victor Valley Daily Press, David Pardo Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/science/article/Bitter-cold-grips-West-citrus-and-lettuce-damaged-4191498.php#ixzz2Iwkw5eR0

Icicles are formed on an orange tree in an orange grove in Redlands, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP / Jae C. Hong) Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cold-snap-in-california-arizona-likely-to-drive-up-canadian-produce-prices-1.1124323#ixzz2Iy8GSlUV

Citrus growers across California worked frantically through the night to keep their fruit from freezing as temperatures in their orchards dropped. (Jan. 14)

This Jan. 12, 2013, photo shows frost on a tree with oranges in an orchard near Sanger, Calif., after a night of freezing temperatures. As an unusual cold spell gripped parts of the West for a fifth day, some California citrus growers reported damage to crops and an agriculture official said national prices on lettuce have started to rise because of lost produce in Arizona. LOCAL PRINT OUT (VISALIA TIMES-DELTA, REEDY EXPONENT, KINGBURG RECORDER, SELMA ENTERPRISE, HANFORD SENTINEL, PORTERVILLE RECORDER, MADERA TRIBUNE, THE BUSINESS JOURANL FRENSO); LOCAL TV OUT (KSEE24, KFSN30, KGE47, KMPH26) Photo: The Fresno Bee, Craig Kohlruss Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/science/article/Bitter-cold-grips-West-citrus-and-lettuce-damaged-4191498.php#ixzz2IwkeFhiZ