(Wines&Vines) - Weather forecasters are predicting more severe cold weather today across the Upper Midwest, the East and into New England, with low temperatures dipping into negative numbers in many areas. It’s now been almost two weeks of unremitting bone-chilling weather in these regions. 

With this long stretch of unusually cold temperatures, grapegrowers in the Upper Midwest and the East naturally wonder how their vines are doing. Had they acclimated to a deep freeze?