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Orion wrote:Air temp. -2.2 deg. at present here.

Grass doesn't look as white as it did t'other day.

Same here. Down to minis 2.6C.
Lots of ice around.
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Another -5 this morning
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Down to -2C today but not much frost on the grass or condensation on the windows with the dry air - dew point was -5C.
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Another 'dry' frost this morning.
Down to minus 0.9C.
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down to -3deg this morning
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-2C in Te Anau with a clear sky so not as cold as i thought it should be.
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-4.5 this morning, very white
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shovelopikis wrote:-4.5 this morning, very white
where abouts though.
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-5 this morning and now its clouded over >_< >_< >_<
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-2.9 here, grass looks very white.
Hope your day perks up, Richard!
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Got down to -2.3C then clouded over here, too. Last night was the first time this winter that it's dropped below freezing before midnight.
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Orion wrote:-2.9 here, grass looks very white.
Hope your day perks up, Richard!
No ,the cloud is here to stay,but could be the last frost for a week i reckon.
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In alexandra my gauge outside got down to -6.9 but were in a river basin at the local camp and like you Richard thick high cloud has rolled in so i dont think we will rise above 0 if the cloud stays.
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Good frost overnight. As Steven said on his posting, first time dropping below zero before midnight, where it was minus 2 at 10pm.
Anyway, down to minus 4.3C before clouding over from the NE, and then it was minus 1.3C at 7am.I did notice that the frosting got lighter as I moved towards Christchurch.
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Richard wrote:
shovelopikis wrote:-4.5 this morning, very white
where abouts though.
Near a place called tihoi, but really sheltered vally about 600 meters asl

so frosts quite easy there
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Good white frost this morning and lots of water on the windows after it got down to -2.3C.
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Ripper here this morning on -4.8deg
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Minus 3.1C in the screen here.
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-3.3 near mangakino
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Coldest morning of the year here. A frosty low of 0.1C
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-3.7 here today just north of hamilton
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-1.2 in waiuku i see this morning
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-5.3 mokai
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A good frost here this morning but it only went down to minus 1.1C, mind you it was cloudy overhead as well.
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Interesting..... I'm sitting on -2.0 with fog while hamilton airport is on -3.9 and I suspect that is without fog. Hence me being warmer. Wish we didn't have the fog. Would have been good to hit -5. Something we haven't done since 2009
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