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-1.5 here this morning coldest start so far this year. Cloud after sunrise has keep it cool temp is slowly climbed to 8 degrees. Home working with the fire on.
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Still no frosts here in ChCh city yet...have usually had a few by now. Not complaining mind you.....but could be on the cards in the coming days with the anticyclonic pattern bedding in
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Just another light one this morning of -0.5
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A light one here too with a bit of fog. Down to 0 overnight.
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-1 here this morning.
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You've got it colder than here this morning ,-0.5deg here but now the clouds come over
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-1.7 degrees here this morning. Another blue day domer!
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-1.6 this morning with some fog forming at sunrise. Day 3 of consecutive air frost.
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I didnt look this morning how cold it was but like you Andy we had a light again here as well.
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Another frost this morning -1.1, but another clear blue day is here!
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-2.5 this morning and a -3 yesterday
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-1.5 degrees here this morning.
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Had the NW wind till the early hours but it died out and got rather cold just before sunrise,it just hit zero,with a bit of ice on the car
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Still no frsots here, defintely cooler in the mornigns but nowhere near a frost yet. Next week on the cards though, once the fronts come through over the weekend
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It got down to 1.5°C here this morning with the first (light) frost on the grass this year.
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-1.4 here currently.
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It was sitting on zero at 6.00am and then the NW returned again,blowing quite hard now.
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Temperature fell away to -0.4 this morning after 7am, with white rime forming as I watched over the last half-hour or so.
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Just got below zero as the sun came up. >_<
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Good frost here this morning. -4.0 degrees currently.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:Good frost here this morning. -4.0 degrees currently.
Yes that's a good one :wave: -3 here with thick fog which has probably saved us from getting any colder.
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Thats a goody alright.
Saved by the cloud layer and S wind here this morning
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Andy wrote:
snowstormwatcher wrote:Good frost here this morning. -4.0 degrees currently.
Yes that's a good one :wave: -3 here with thick fog which has probably saved us from getting any colder.
Update: The fog did lift and we hit -4 at 7:30am :-o
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-3.5 this morning.
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A few more 'official' obs from yesterday morn c/o NIWA:
-6.1 - Pukaki Aero
-5.6 - Ranfurly
-5.0 - Tara Hills (Omarama)
-3.5 - Blenheim Aero
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