Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 06:52
-0.5 here this morning,had to get up and turn sprinklers on the garden at 3.00,in the end maybe not heavy enough to do any damage to frost tender plants.
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Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 09:03
not quite a frost but heck i wasnt expecting 0.9!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dam near froze this morning and had to dip my hands in warm water.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 10:59
Not too far from a frost in Chch - down to 2C overnight at Jeff's station.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 11:16
Talking with a bloke this who lives in Sefton,he had ice on his window screen
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 11:44
We should have a competition given a week timeline when we guess in our areas the 1st frost,I reckon 3rd week in May for auckland.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sat 13/03/2010 23:16
Michael wrote:We should have a competition given a week timeline when we guess in our areas the 1st frost,I reckon 3rd week in May for auckland.
Good idea.
What's the prize?
A frost cloth.
I say, next week for here.
JohnGaul
NZThS
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sun 14/03/2010 06:31
Travelled over the Desert Rd yesterday.. There was a slight dusting of new snow on Ruapehu..
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sun 14/03/2010 07:30
DamMichael wrote:We should have a competition given a week timeline when we guess in our areas the 1st frost,I reckon 3rd week in May for auckland.
too late for me 
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Sun 14/03/2010 07:50
A trip to auckland in a weather situation like this on a on school busNZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Michael wrote:We should have a competition given a week timeline when we guess in our areas the 1st frost,I reckon 3rd week in May for auckland.
Good idea.
What's the prize?
A frost cloth.
I say, next week for here.
JohnGaul
NZThS
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Wed 17/03/2010 20:52
Hmmm, Maybe tomorro morning for Christchurch. Was 8C at 8pm and has been dropping 0.4 every 10mins and now is 6C. No cloud cover, and could be a real cool night ahead.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 05:54
well here it is. in the negatives this morning. YUK!
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 06:25
March can see light frosts where i live. but this morning's -3 is just crazy 
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 07:51
Think Akld Aero got down to 7.5C this morn - first time it's got to single digits since Nov 13 and its lowest temp since end of Oct.
Down to 8.0C here.
Down to 8.0C here.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 08:36
Just had another look and the low was just short of -4 at about 7.00am
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 08:49
Frost for Matangi 0.3°C!
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 09:29
hell this has to be some kind of record for here. -1.7 here this morning!!!!! what a joke! its only bloody march. bugger all dew though so the ice on my car windscreen was only very thin unlike the mid winters frosts.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 10:12
air temp or grass min temp?
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 10:15
Air temp for me...... I think thats the same for Jamie too.
Those soil stations are expensive but are good for frost recordings!
Those soil stations are expensive but are good for frost recordings!
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 10:51
Mine was air tempJames wrote:air temp or grass min temp?
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 11:33
mine was air. dont have a gras temp. that is next on the list of things to get though.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 12:40
That is some good frost readings for mid March, nothing as cold as -4 here yet Richard. Only been some light frosts around 0 degress so far. Autumn is here.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 12:55
so that makes it even more impressive!
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 15:45
First frost for the year here this morning down to -1 would have easily gotten colder if there was no high cloud around.
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 17:29
...down to 0.5C overnight in the screen but bounced back up to 7C at 7:30am
no frost evidence
JohnGaul
NZThS
no frost evidence
JohnGaul
NZThS
Re: Frost reports for 2010
Posted: Thu 18/03/2010 17:38
yer Andy,not good,in the 10 years living here that was by the heaviest March frost,my garden survived thanks to four sprinklers.Andy wrote:That is some good frost readings for mid March, nothing as cold as -4 here yet Richard. Only been some light frosts around 0 degress so far. Autumn is here.
