BATON ROUGE, La (NBC33) Residents in the Capital City woke up to below average temps Tuesday. Starting at 3 AM, temperatures were at or below 28 degrees. It stayed below that until 8 AM prompting a hard freeze warning for our area. Hard freeze warnings are issued when temperatures are expected to fall below 28 degrees for an extended period of time and can kill sensitive plants and vegetation.

Check out Bree's Tuesday forecast here.