Freak Florida Freeze Drives Up Orange Juice Prices

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The threat of a frost damaging enough to devastate Florida's citrus crop sent the price of orange juice soaring on the commodities market Wednesday. Strawberry growers were also particularly worried, as the short growing season would end before a frost-damaged crop might recover, according to The St. Petersburg Times.

The impact of the frost was still being assessed Thursday.

The Arctic blast threatened to bring record-low temperatures, or at least the lowest temperatures seen in decades, to parts of Florida, the nation's biggest fruit producer. By this weekend, however, it will be sunny and 70 degrees.

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