Frost reports 2023

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Re: Frost reports 2023

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Clear, sunny, down to -0.1°C earlier, lawn white now.

Currently 0.7°C.
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Frost here this morning. White lawn and roofs.
Down to minus 0.6C.
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Cloudy here, so no frost, thankfully
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Reached down to -0.3deg at 3.50am
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Down to zero overnight with frost this morning on the lawn and white on roofs.
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-2.2deg here
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Slight frost this morning on -1 deg
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2.3°C now but a white rime on lawn and neighbour's roof.
Sunny.
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Orion wrote: Wed 18/10/2023 07:05 2.3°C now but a white rime on lawn and neighbour's roof.
Sunny.
Fingers crossed that’s our last touch of frost for the year.
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darcyplumb wrote: Wed 18/10/2023 10:10
Orion wrote: Wed 18/10/2023 07:05 2.3°C now but a white rime on lawn and neighbour's roof.
Sunny.
Fingers crossed that’s our last touch of frost for the year.
Monday morning looks cold, might get close.
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Cant get a true reading of this mornings frost as I'm not able to log on NIWA's neon website and my contact is on leave atm. But my mercury gauge indicates a -3deg frost.
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Richard wrote: Sat 28/10/2023 07:24 Cant get a true reading of this mornings frost as I'm not able to log on NIWA's neon website and my contact is on leave atm. But my mercury gauge indicates a -3deg frost.
-2.4C this morning according to NIWA - your coldest day this month... :-)
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White frost on lawn this morning, down to minus 0.8C.
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At 5:30am this morning: around 2°C air temp. but a rime of frost on neighbour's roof and probably on my lawn, didn't walk out to see ;)
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Would like to think that this mornings -0.2 deg is going to be the last for the year.
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This mornings -0.6deg is latest zero and below frost for any year for the time living here, 2010 saw a zero deg morning on the 24th Nov, before that the 14th Nov 2012.
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