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Down to minus 0.8C overnight, but warming up to 1.6C by 7:30am.
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-1.5deg this morning,looks colder though as its very white.
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-0.1C overnight here and first air frost of the month (last Tuesday was close on 0.3C).
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Down to -2.1C at 2.20am here in West Melton, coldest night in a month!
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Bradley wrote:Down to -2.1C at 2.20am here in West Melton, coldest night in a month!
Over here, the minimum was minus 1.7C.
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one below this morning
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This morning looks rather white but gauge only showing -0.5
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Very white here as well with a minimum of -0.4C
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-2 here this morning.
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Frosty here this morning, down to minus 0.9C.
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-3.8deg this morning,
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Richard wrote:-3.8deg this morning,
That would be the hardest frost ive had here in Oct,it froze the sprinkler heads on the irrigation that i had going for frost protection,thankfully they put enough ice on before they froze up.
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I had a sleep-in this morning and never got up until 9:30am but I did notice that the thermometer in the screen did dip down to minus 0.8C. :yum:
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Frozen snow this morning with a -1deg frost
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A bit of 'black ice' on the decking caused me to slip over this morning and rendering a bit of a sore right cheek on my butox 8-o :x

.....anyway it was minus 0.7C this morning.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:A bit of 'black ice' on the decking caused me to slip over this morning and rendering a bit of a sore right cheek on my butox 8-o :x

.....anyway it was minus 0.7C this morning.
Should have stuffed a pillow down ya pants John
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Richard wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Should have stuffed a pillow down ya pants John
I landed on my wallet which had a few coins in it.
Should stick to EFTPOS, instead of cash, to avoid similar things happening in the future :rolleyes: :lol: :smile:
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
I landed on my wallet which had a few coins in it.
Should stick to EFTPOS, instead of cash, to avoid similar things happening in the future :rolleyes: :lol: :smile:
Oh dear :eek: ,an indentation of Elizy's face on ya bum :B
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Couldn't have been further from a frost here today, 19 degrees at 8am
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Just on zero with ice on the car this morning,now a NW wind and 12deg
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Down to minus 0.1C overnight, so there could of been a tad of a frost early this morning.
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Frost this morning but only slight.
Down to minus 0.7C in the screen.
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Last two mornings have been just on zero with a bit of frost on the car,wont be long now till it will only be a cold southerly that brings frost.
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Frost on car roof this morning with gauge showing 0deg
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Yes frost on the truck this morning and yesterday here too, getting late for frosts round these parts.