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Just falling below the magical 0C mark here.

It sounds as though personal weather stations will be watched as much if not more than the tellie tonight!

David wrote:This is a strange anticyclone the way the wind doesn't become absolute calm at night...as a result the temperature has started rising here

This has happened quite often here, when the thermometer has dipped below zero then has risen again and then dropped away towards the earlier hours of the morning..

JohnGaul
NZThS

-1 here. Id say expect anything between -3 to -6.

Temp gone down heaps in last 20 min -down to 0.4 now - think I will need asleep in till it warms tomorrow. Should be a good frost in town tonite !!

Just hit -6..

Andy wrote:Just hit -6..

wow maybe -10 for you tonight?

May not get a frost here tonight, not as cold as it was at this time yesterday. Still, will have to wait and see...

Decking is now quite white. Down to minus 1.4C at 8pm.

JohnGaul
NZThS

Brrrr its cold.

Had a bit of wind up earlier but now it dropped off and so has the temp... again, spiked for a short while.
Should be good for the match tonight @ Eden Park.. lots of dew means some messy play!

Just to get an idea of how cold it is currently in the South Island tonight.

Clyde -5.1
Queenstown -3.8
Castle Hill -3.6
Timaru -2.7
Twizel -2.2
Ashburton -1.8
Christchurch -1.6
Rolleston -1
Geraldine -0.6

Cold here gone down to 1.0 now looking towards a -2 max i would say. Nothing to what andy got to deal with. Hope you got plenty of lagging on your pipes.

Might be frost-free here tonight, unless that high cloud which has been hanging around all day goes away

Looked like the Northshore to east Auckland was mostly affected by that high cloud, it was a mostly sunny day here.

Location of cloud currently
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite ... ye=1&lyf=1

Yer, sunshine the whole day today was just skirting the edge of that cloud, actually got all the lawns done for the first time in months! Stoked.. not so much about the temp outside atm tho.

Stunning stunning day up mt ruapehu today. Not a cloud in the entire sky all day and hardly a breath of wind. some incredible frost scenes as the sun came up on the drive down.

Not so cold today but usually is colder after sun rise here.

CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:-1 here. Id say expect anything between -3 to -6.

Didn't go any lower than -1 in my part of town

Razor wrote:

CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:-1 here. Id say expect anything between -3 to -6.

Didn't go any lower than -1 in my part of town

Are you referring to last night cause I posted that comment on Saturday night for Sunday mornings frost, not this mornings frost. Got down to -5 officially at airport and was -4.5 in my neck of the woods. Last night was not as cold as I thought because there was some cloud cover and an early NE. Infact surpirsed it was -1 with a NE breeze out there at 7am this morning. Although, quite a lot of frosty white footpaths and roads that hadnt been used much. Trucks were laying out grit in some of the more shaded areas.

Hey there CWC- whoops yea last night was -1. Saturday got down to -4.

Did seem a lot icier this morning even though much 'warmer' perhaps due to the very light NE flow creating moisture accross town?- it was much calmer and 'drier" on Saturday. Saw some idiots nearly losing their cars on local roads this morning

This anticyclone is odd, every night the wind does not die out as one might expect....no wonder it has not been a big frost producer up this way.

WE have been on the outskirts of that low maybe the S wind has kept its appearance

David wrote:This anticyclone is odd, every night the wind does not die out as one might expect....no wonder it has not been a big frost producer up this way.