Last year, the Pick-Your-Own fruit didn't happen at the orchard after a late freeze in May damaged the fruit. "It pretty much destroyed any hope of a sour cherry crop, so it was a really hard year ...

Northwest Montana’s January freeze is having lasting effects on the area, notably in Flathead Lake’s cherry orchards. At Sunset Bay, temperatures bottomed out at negative 14 between Jan. 10-13.

And while it may look like spring in many areas, including Washington, D.C. and its famed cherry trees ... prompting a freeze warning for at least 24 million people from Texas to North Carolina.

FLATHEAD LAKE — The famous Flathead cherry crop in western Montana got almost completely wiped out this year by a hard freeze in January, which one longtime grower called the worst she’s seen ...