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Well its the time of year again,March is normally the first month when the frosts arrive which it did yesterday morning with a bit of visible frost on the long grass and car roof,temp got to 1.8deg.
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Yes - my Westerfield Spy reported ice on car windscreen very early yesterday morning.
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We have had 2 frosts this week, both times was around 1C
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-2 air temp here this morning >_<
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Just on Zero this morning
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We also had our first frosts of 2015 this week. Very minor ones with mins recorded of 0.5°C yesterday and 0.3°C today. Enough to ice up the cars and make my morning run a bit chilly at 5am!
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No frost here but it was frost temperature overnight as the temperature got down to zero.
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Bit colder this morning with -1.5
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Just -1deg this morning with thin high cloud
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Frost here this morning with icing on the decking.
Minimum was minus 0.3C.
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Same here,but -0.5deg
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-1 deg this morning
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minus 0.4C this morning but frosting clearing away quite quickly.
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another -1deg this morning,one more tonight & that will be it for about a week
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Should be the first heavy frost tonight which amazingly late in the autumn.
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Yes expecting the first decent one in the morning and the next few mornings following. Does anywhere in the Canterbury plains get hoar frosts?
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No, im guessing you mean a Rime frost like they get in Central South island? We don't get frost on frost really on the Canterbury plans.
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Scargill does get a weak Rime frost the odd time but nothing like Central Otago.

Its clouded over here,so maybe no frost after all.
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Cloud did clear sometime in the night giving us a -3.2deg frost
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Only got down to 2.6C overnight here but first frost I've seen on the grass this year and a good coating of ice on cars this morning.
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minus 0.5C here this morning.
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Coldest frost this year on minus 4.5C here this morning
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-3.7C here in West Melton
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First air frost of the year here got down to -1.9C
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A good frost this morning with it down to minus 3.7C.
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