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Re: Frosts 2012

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According to Niwa Auckland has an average of 0.8 ground frost days in September, we got that frost this morning.
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Down to 0.1°C with a frost here, certainly the lowest temperature I can remember in September :)
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Air temp. of -3.1 degrees here this morning.
(I've been telling The Dog she can be grateful she doesn't live outside in an oil-drum [with or without a sack over it] ;) )
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Got to -2.5C here - good frost on the grass but almost no condensation on the windows because of the dry air.
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Orion wrote:Air temp. of -3.1 degrees here this morning.
(I've been telling The Dog she can be grateful she doesn't live outside in an oil-drum [with or without a sack over it] ;) )
And does she show show her appreciation Orion :D
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-1.7°C here and -1.9 at Jamies, not a bad frost :)
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Richard wrote:
Orion wrote:Air temp. of -3.1 degrees here this morning.
(I've been telling The Dog she can be grateful she doesn't live outside in an oil-drum [with or without a sack over it] ;) )
And does she show show her appreciation Orion :D
She is Useful, Ornamental and Diverting. ;-)
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David wrote:Down to 0.1°C with a frost here, certainly the lowest temperature I can remember in September :)
lowest temperature all year perhaps? certainly has been a warm winter imo.
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Vertigo wrote:
David wrote:Down to 0.1°C with a frost here, certainly the lowest temperature I can remember in September :)
lowest temperature all year perhaps?
Not for me, we got -0.4 on 30 June
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Down to minus 3.3C here. Quite white but as SG said no condensation because of the dryness.
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2.6C here this morn, although not the lowest for this year.

I think Mangere might've recorded its first ever subzero temp in Sep this morn, and Whangaparaoa's 4.6C yesterday was also its lowest ever Sep temp (although the latter's records only go back 13 years).

Below are a few more T-mins for this morn c/o NIWA & MetService...

-0.9C .. Ardmore Aero
-0.8C .. Whenuapai Aero
-0.8C .. North Shore, Albany
-0.1C .. Mangere
0.6C ... Pukekohe
2.4C ... Auckland Aero

-4.7C .. Taupo Aero
-4.4C .. Christchurch Aero
-2.6C .. Hamilton Aero
-4.1C .. Dunedin Aero
1.0C ... Dunedin, Musselburgh
2.8C ... Tauranga Aero
2.8C ... Wellington, Kelburn
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-3.6 degrees air frost here
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At least there wont be a frost here tonight with the NW wind blowing outside.
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Richard wrote:At least there wont be a frost here tonight with the NW wind blowing outside.
yes same here.
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Down to -1.6 here overnight.
Now 1.1 with high cloud.
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No frost but the thermometer in the screen did dip below zero before the NW picked up this morning.
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Bit of frost on the car this morning, gauge showing .5deg air temp and -0.5 ground temp
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-3 here this morning.
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-3.5 airfrost and -5 ground,a very dry frost this morning,the ground is hardly white at all.
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-0.9 air temp. at the moment, and the grass is very white. Swirly frost patterns on the car, also.
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-4.8 air frost here. No surpise after it dipped below 0 at 9pm last night.
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Orion wrote:-0.9 air temp. at the moment, and the grass is very white. Swirly frost patterns on the car, also.
Thats interesting,probably because it didn't rain here last night as to way there was hardly any ice here.
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Orion wrote:-0.9 air temp. at the moment, and the grass is very white. Swirly frost patterns on the car, also.
Same here, minus 0.9C and also there was swirly frost patterns on the windscreen of the truck
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-2 here currently.
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-0.9 deg. here, another white frost; sunny & clear sky.
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