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After a snow or ice storm you can see the immediate effects it has on your plants. Sometimes when you have a lot of snow mixed with sunny days, the southwest side of trees will happen to get blistering of the bark and begin to crack open. These cracks can be seen forming quickly in extreme temperature changes but other times may not show the impact until the plant starts growing around May.

“It’s a time like this that’s a little bit scary for the nursery industry when we have warm fronts one day and then these storms the next,” says Stickels. “If the plants start to want to grow and you get these cold freezing events, it can really hurt the buds on the plants and cause stunting of the growth in the springtime.”