Frost Reports 2024

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Nice and white this morning. Down to minus 2.3C.
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Cloud and rain cleared away overnight to us having a light frost this morning, down to minus 0.4C.
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It's already -8 at Mt Cook. Blimey
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Down to -3.9 before cloud rolled back in
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Mt Cook Village bottomed out at -10.6. Thats the first double digits below zero I've heard of this year
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Down to minus 2.1C overnight before the cloud rolled in.
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Went down to 0C this morning
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-3.9°C between 7am and 8am today; very white frost. :D

Clear and sunny now.
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-4.7 Halswell.
-11 Mt Cook
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Bottomed out at -6.5deg, nothing to severe thankfully, still had cold water.
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These figures (to 7am) today - 3/8/2024) were taken from the linked tweet from MetService. Chilly morning for the South Island. Nowt from NIWA.

Mount Cook Airport -10.7°C
St Arnaud -8.0°C
Twizel -7.7°C
Dunedin Airport -6.5°C
Alexandra Airport -5.2°C
Christchurch Airport -5.1°C

https://x.com/MetService/status/1819470035200712928
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Good frost this morning, not like yesterday when cloud cover hindered it's development.
Quite white this morning on lawns and roofs. Down to minus 4.2C.
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-5C last night here and forecast -5C tonight as well
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Sitting on minus 3 here in CHCH as of 915pm. Mt Cook Village on minus 10 already!
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West Melton from above this morning :mrgreen:
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Down to - 4.1°C Bone chilling and the lowest here this year.
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Down to 7.8deg here. Still have cold water which I'm surprised about, the house is on piles and the pipe is unlagged
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MetService report that Sunday morning (4th Aug) saw the second lowest August temperature ever recorded at Christchurch Airport - a minimum of -6.1°C.

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https://x.com/MetService/status/1819823301784711427
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-4.7°C was the lowest I saw here this morning.
Glorious sunny day follows.
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Another good frost this morning, down to minus 4.9C
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Lowest at my house was -5.8C
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Simon Culling wrote: Sun 04/08/2024 08:29 MetService report that Sunday morning (4th Aug) saw the second lowest August temperature ever recorded at Christchurch Airport - a minimum of -6.1°C.

Chart copied from this tweet:

https://x.com/MetService/status/1819823301784711427
August 29th 1993 being third is interesting, i know that very day a year prior (and the day before that) had the big snow storm in 1992, so would of expected that to be on there rather than 1993.
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Dropped to -1.3°C now. Rather hazy blue sky to west and north, some light cloud around.
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Down to -3C overnight, not as cold as previous nights but still cold
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Dropped down to minus 1.5C overnight here this morning.
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