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Re: Frosts 2013

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got down to -4.4°C this morning.
that's a week of below zero's in a row.
might be at the end of the run tomorrow though.
would be nice as the gas fire has stopped working......
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Re: Frosts 2013

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Richard wrote:
trickytiger wrote:weather station signal stopped... only got down to -1.3 before it stopped working...
Looks to be working for me
Yes started working again just before 8am, then stopped at 2.30pm for a couple minutes again. Not the first time it's lost it's signal, doesn't do it very often yet though.
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First air frost (-0.1°C) recorded here for two weeks but not as heavy frost on the grass as yesterday with drier air from the NW overnight.
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First frost for ages this morning with a -2deg air frost,but it goes to show how much the ground has warmed with having warm nights of late,the gauge at ground level showed 0deg
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Good frost on the grass here this morning and a min of -0.2°C.
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Air temp. +0.9 at present, frosty rime on grass and car. Red sunrise.
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- 4.5deg here,
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-3.8
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Same as yesterday morning with -4.5
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down to -4.6 this morning and a windchill of -8.1
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trickytiger wrote:down to -4.6 this morning and a windchill of -8.1
Yes that wind was horrible,we dont normally get a wind when there's a frost here.
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-1.5 here currently with thick high cloud, Going to be another cold day here.
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-3.9deg and thin high cloud over head.
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Down to minus 1.1 this morning. :B
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0.6 degrees air temp. at 7am here: grass and car white.
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A very light one here too,ice on the car but showing +1deg
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Temp. has fallen nearly two degrees in the last couple of hours, now +0.2;
white frost on grass.
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Thought there would have been a frost here last night ,but the fog came in and only got as low as +3
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Down to -1 here this morning
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Shivers :eek:
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-0.3C in Waddington, only second time in August it's been below 0C, unbelievable!!
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-0.5 this morning
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A frost this morning in Ashburton on car, grass and house-rooves.
Haven't yet got my gadget set up for temp. ;)
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Yes a bit white here too,down to -1.5
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Yeah a light frost here also, Down to -0.2c
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