If it's cold outside, the last thing I would want is to be sprayed with water.
But this is how it's done to protect oranges from freezing.
Old Man Winter threw a damaging freeze all the way down to parts of Florida earlier this week. This posed a big threat to the Sunshine State's famous oranges.
The critical temperature that is considered damaging for typical Florida oranges is 28 degrees, and it must drop below this number for two to three hours.
So farmers have to protect.
And one way they prevent their oranges from damaging freezes is to continually spray the fruit with water.
The water then freezes around the leaves, branches and oranges.
It may seem odd, but the process of water changing states from a liquid to a solid releases a little bit of heat. It's just enough to keep the temperature hovering around 32 degrees.
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