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Re: Frosts 2012

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Air temp -1.4 at 6:20am.
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-2.5deg this morning >_<
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-2.1deg here rangiora
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-0.2° here with a heavy frost on the grass and foggy.
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melja wrote:-2.1deg here rangiora
Just what garden centres like to see,now people will be in replacing there tomatoes :D
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Yep covered mt potatoes last night but dont have any toms yet.
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Thought there would have been a frost here, But got up at 6am and it was 5 degrees even with clear skies and no wind. Did get down to around 0c in the early hours.
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Re: Frosts 2012

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I see Taupo airport was -3.3 yesterday morning, really low for November!!
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Good frost here this morning but going away quickly from areas exposed to the sun from sun-up.
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Surprised to have a bit of frost on to car again this morning with the temp gauge saying -0.5 airtemp and +0.5 ground temp,i can see a huge temperature range coming up today between the min and max
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Light frost here this morning, Down to 0 degrees.
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Not a tomato killer snowstormwatcher
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Getting sick of these #$*@ frosts now :mad: :mad: ,had to get up at 2.00am to turn all the taps on.
Has to be the worst Nov for years for the number of frosts >_< >_<

-2 air temp and -1 ground temp
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+1.1deg. now, but ice on the car, and the grass is white in spots.
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Yep same here too with -0.9 and grass all white.
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smack on zero this morning and a ground temp of +0.5,thankfully not heavy enough to damage plants
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Light air frost this morning down to -0.2. :mad: Summer can't just get started here!
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Re: Frosts 2012

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Must be just round the corner Andy..surely?
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