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Ice on the roof of the car this morning #-o #-o ,gauge on the post showing 1C
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Yep a slight coating ice on the roof of my car this morning as well. Got down to 2.5 degrees q-
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frost, already! hadn't had a sub 10C min here for a good 3-4 months, cool this morning though at around 12C, almost too cold for shorts. ;)
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Tim S wrote:frost, already! hadn't had a sub 10C min here for a good 3-4 months, cool this morning though at around 12C, almost too cold for shorts. ;)
yep just one of the joys of living inland :-w when we first mover here the first five years there was a frost every month of the year,be it only a very light one Dec-Jan & Fed,the last five years though Jan and Feb has been frost free,don't know if thats a sign of any thing or not.
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I am very surprised about that! Frost in Mid summer!!!!
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In January maybe two years ago we had a frost... What is your altitude there, Richard?
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Orion wrote:In January maybe two years ago we had a frost... What is your altitude there, Richard?
175m,its because there's ranges right round us here.
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Ice on the roof and windscreen of my car this morning got down to 0.9 degrees. Sadly my pumpkins have been hit by the frost :-( Looks like most of the corn is has escaped being hit though.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:Ice on the roof and windscreen of my car this morning got down to 0.9 degrees. Sadly my pumpkins have been hit by the frost :-( Looks like most of the corn is has escaped being hit though.
Must have been close to frost here too,have to watch out Monday morning though
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cold one here this morning (for us!) around 8C I think, going to be cold here from Sunday night on too, local weather forecaster has 4-7C for us for Monday and Tuesday morning, will be a bit of a shock!
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Frost on the car roof >_< 0.5C
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Ice again on the cars roof >_< and just above 0C :-s
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Frost here this morning. Overnight low of -1 at 7am this morning.
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Thought there might have been one here two but the fog came in during the night,NW wind came up during this afternoon so it should be a mild night tonight,i hope.
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Frost here this morning down to -2 overnight. 0 degrees now with thick high cloud cover.
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A light frost here this morning. Overnight low of -1 degrees. Should be a lovely fine day though.
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Looking like a good frost here tonight. Just dropped below 0 degrees with frost forming on the grass.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:Looking like a good frost here tonight. Just dropped below 0 degrees with frost forming on the grass.

Yes dropping to 0 here too.. -3 this morning :wave:
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Cloud here this morning thankfully, otherwise we would be get a frost also.
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Good one here this morning with a -2.2 air temp.
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A few MetService and NIWA min-temps (°C) from this morn...

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-5.9  Ranfurly 
-5.6  Pukaki Aero 
-5.4  Lauder 
-5.0  Middlemarch 

-4.9  Tara Hills (near Omarama) 
-4.5  Queenstown Aero 
-4.5  Lumsden 
-4.4  Alexandra Cws 
-4.3  Clyde 
-4.0  Cromwell 

-3.7  Dunedin Aero 
-3.2  Wanaka Aero 
-3.2  Lake Tekapo
-3.1  Windsor 
-3.3  Manapouri Aero 

-2.9  Invercargill Aero 
-2.8  Christchurch Aero 
-2.8  Timaru Aero 
-2.6  Murchison 

-1.9  Ashburton Aero 
-1.6  Oamaru Aero 
Edit: Updated figures posted earlier.
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A good frost here this morning. Currently -4.1 degrees with blue dome skies.
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Think i saw M/S with -2.5 at chch when i got up.
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-2.2 deg. here now, pink-and-golden sunlight on the white frost, looks very wintry. Going to be a beautiful day.
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Got down to -4.5 @ 6:20am now -1.8 and thick fog.
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