(Wines&Vines) - Cold temperatures arrived with the New Year in January across the East, from Georgia to Pennsylvania and west to Ohio. The winter of 2018, however, was different from recent winters, in that the thermometer dropped to single digits in many areas, and then stayed there for weeks.

Unlike last year when the cherry trees in Washington, D.C. bloomed in February, some warmer days this year during the same month did not result in deacclimation of buds. March and April were both colder than usual in many regions, and a series of snowstorms moved up the East Coast almost every week in March.