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First air frost I've recorded this year of -0.2°C
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Min temp -4.1, fog has creep in so sitting on -2.2 atm.
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Not as cold as yesterday here,only -2 deg and a thin fog which able to see the approaching NW as i can see the top of the fog been blown by the wind
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Skywatcher wrote:First air frost I've recorded this year of -0.2°C
minus 1.2C out here for Wednesday morning, but down to minus 1 here overnight before the fog set in. :smile:
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First sign of frost here in Nelson this year, Currently 1.8c with ice on the car and patches of very light frost on the grass
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Just a slight one here,-0.5deg
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-3.8 air frost here atm
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first frost of the year in Reefton. down to -1.7°C.
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light frost this morning of -0.5
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Light frost here this morning, Overnight low of -1-1.
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light frost here too, hardly any though 0.8
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Should be a good frost here tomorrow morning, Just dropped below 0 degrees.
Already -2 up in Fairlie according to my mate there.
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damn beating us up here, but that's alright don't like frosts at all especially when I have to get up early.

Thinking there will be a bigger frost here tomorrow than today, sitting on 4.1, dropping at a rate of 0.9/hr
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+0.7deg at the moment, but was -1.1deg. a couple of hours ago; brilliant moonlight.
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Was -2.5deg now +2.5 with pockets of warm NW wind coming through
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-2 here currently.
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got to -1.7 here this morning
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A -3.5 frost here
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-1.8 degrees here at present.
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-2 here this morning.
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light frost here -1.3 barely made the ground white, froze the irrigator and pipes though
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Minus 0.9C here this morning.
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hit -4.5°C just before 6am in Reefton.
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einzack wrote:hit -4.5°C just before 6am in Reefton.
Good frost,whats your lowest youve had
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Richard wrote:
einzack wrote:hit -4.5°C just before 6am in Reefton.
Good frost,whats your lowest youve had
lowest I have recorded since 2010 is -6.4°C.
get 3 or 4 -5°C or lower recordings a winter.
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