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Re: Frosts 2012

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About the same here on -2.5,-4deg ground frost,not as cold this morning as yesterday but a lot whiter
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-2.5 this morning alot warmer than yesterday!
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-1 air frost today
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Cloudy here this morning so no frost but there's clear sky further inland
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A light frost here this morning, Down to -0.5 degrees.
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Quite a white-looking frost this morning, air temp. -0.3deg.
Sun's up :smile:
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That same suns up here as well and -3.5 air temp and -5 ground frost
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:eek: Nice and frosty first up this morning but went off when the sun shone on the frosty pastures.
Down to minus 1.9C.
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-3 and a -4.5 ground frost this morning
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Air temp. was +0.2 at 7am; grass is white again.
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Down to minus 1.2C this morning here but I don't know the severity of the frost because I had a sleep in. :-s
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Air temp. -0.9 this morning, frosty & sunny again.
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so you havnt got the cloud we have here this morning.
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Richard wrote:so you havnt got the cloud we have here this morning.
It clouded up later in the morning.
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Frosty overnight but when I got up this morning there was not much evidence.
The temperature in the screen dropped below zero.
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+1.4 degrees now, but frozen dew on the car, and in shady areas the grass looks very white.
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low cloud here ;)
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Air temp of 0.4 this morning
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-0.2 degrees here at 6am.
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Between 6.30 and 7am the temperature here fell away from 0.0 to -0.6, with a little thin ground mist coming in, and sunshine.
Now -0.3 degrees. (All air temps)

Edit: to confess that the low temperatures as given were in error, due to inept operation of equipment. :o I hope that particular mistake will not happen again. Sorree. :B
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Orion wrote:Between 6.30 and 7am the temperature here fell away from 0.0 to -0.6, with a little thin ground mist coming in, and sunshine.
Now -0.3 degrees. (All air temps)
Interesting, Only down to 6 degrees here, Even with clear skies and no wind.
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snowstormwatcher wrote:
Interesting, Only down to 6 degrees here, Even with clear skies and no wind.
Same here as well,6 low and no wind
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A thin rime of ice on the car, and white on the grass in spots.
Air temp. -1.3 degrees [accurate this time, not like my incorrect reading last week]
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only got down -0.2 degrees here due to wind most of the night which only calmed down around 5am. Very little ice due to low humidity.
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Had no wind here all night so much colder,interesting that the ground air temp was no different to the air temp due to warmer soil temps i would imagine,-4deg
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