Frosts 2016
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Re: Frosts 2016
Should be a good one tomorrow morning, 0.1C already. Also I see metservice have Ashburton bottoming out at -5C tomorrow night which would make it the coldest night of the year.
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Re: Frosts 2016
Quite cold and frosty driving down to Geraldine ( where we are considering buying a property) today.
Interesting to see the snow level becoming less as we drove south along Thompsons Track.![Think :-k](./images/smilies/eusa_think.gif)
Interesting to see the snow level becoming less as we drove south along Thompsons Track.
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Re: Frosts 2016
A very white -3.8 deg this morning, a bank of low cloud just to the east is keeping both Waiau and Cheviot warmer with -0.1deg and +3.3deg
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Re: Frosts 2016
Same here there, Richard, down to minus 3.3C but seemed to be less in ChCh where NE cloud was rolling in, with no frosting observed in Halswell. ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
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Re: Frosts 2016
Hills/mountains are a lower altitude south of Mt Somers though........NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Quite cold and frosty driving down to Geraldine ( where we are considering buying a property) today.
Interesting to see the snow level becoming less as we drove south along Thompsons Track.
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Re: Frosts 2016
And Geraldine itself is only 121m asl which is only slightly higher than West Melton
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Re: Frosts 2016
Heavier frost this morning with lowest point reached, here -5.1 at 4.40am, Waiau -4 at 7.00am and Cheviot -3.1 at 4.10am
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Re: Frosts 2016
-3.4deg. here at the moment; very white on grass, rooves, shrubs; poor birds - sparrows, blackbirds etc - looking a bit hunched up.
Sun just beginning to cast shadows, and I hope that bank of cloud out to the east goes away![0_o 0_o](./images/smilies/0_o.gif)
Sun just beginning to cast shadows, and I hope that bank of cloud out to the east goes away
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Re: Frosts 2016
Down to minus 3.7C here this morning with sullen looking skies and hardly any wind.
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Hit -6.3 at 6.50am now -4.7deg, Waiau is on -5.1 and Cheviot's lowest -4.3 at 6.00am
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-5.4 here will be interesting when and if the wind comes to remove this cold air from inland areas in the next 24hrs.
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Re: Frosts 2016
Down to minus 2.2C.
Noticed a lack of frost in 'sheltered areas' on the way to work this morning, only in exposed areas.
Also, some 'black' ice on the roads.![Urgh >_<](./images/smilies/urgh.gif)
Noticed a lack of frost in 'sheltered areas' on the way to work this morning, only in exposed areas.
Also, some 'black' ice on the roads.
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Re: Frosts 2016
Frost here this morning followed by a totally fine day. Down to minus 0.8C.
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Good white frost here this morning with frost remaining in sheltered areas well into the afternoon.
Quite white is was, probably due to fog'/mist clearing, leaving a rather moist cover to freeze up in clear skies before sunrise. Down to minus 2.3C in the screen. At 9am, it was minus 0.1C. but warmed up slightly as the sun moved onto the screen..
Quite white is was, probably due to fog'/mist clearing, leaving a rather moist cover to freeze up in clear skies before sunrise. Down to minus 2.3C in the screen. At 9am, it was minus 0.1C. but warmed up slightly as the sun moved onto the screen..
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Re: Frosts 2016
By far our coldest morning of the year so far,just dipped below minus 5!![⛄](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/26c4.svg)
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Re: Frosts 2016
There's a bit of frost on the car roof, but nowhere as cold as i thought it was going to be this morning, the lowest it got to was +1.4deg at 6.00am, most of the night was around the +5deg mark thanks to a light NW wind.