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Re: Frosts 2016

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Got to -4.4°C here just before 8am, which is the coldest I've recorded this winter.
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The easterly was quite fresh at times overnight keeping us above zero in Cracroft, surprisingly just a handful of kms west it was -5 degrees at 6am. 5 degrees to the positive of zero at New Brighton for their minimum
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Frost this morning like yesterdays but not as cold, only minus 2.3C.
Similar day to yesterday, with a cloudless blue-dome day except for some NE cloud, this morning.
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I wonder if they've made a mistake forecasting -5C tonight with a good NE and currently 6C at the airport :-k
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Was -2,6 at 12.00am then the NW wind sprung up, then sat around the +8deg mark for the rest of the night
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Not down to the minus 5C forecasted for Christchurch city, well here overnight. Only down to minus 1.5C.
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+0.1 at present but grass and rooves etc quite white with frost.
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Down to -2.2deg here , -1.9deg Waiau and Cheviot -0.7deg
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Frosty this morning, down to minus 2.3C.
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Another frost this morning.
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Lowest it got to this morning was -2.2 at 5.40am
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Frost this morning, down to minus 2.1C
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Slightly harder frost this morning with -2.9deg
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The lowest it got to was -3deg at 7.40am
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Was -1.5deg here at 7am.
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Orion wrote:Was -1.5deg here at 7am.
Did the fog disappear
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Richard wrote:
Orion wrote:Was -1.5deg here at 7am.
Did the fog disappear
Yes, although I couldn't say when. Was still foggy last night at 10pm.
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Frosts every day of the week this week down in Horopito (north of Ohakune) with Friday morning being the thickest.
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Frost here this morning, down to minus 1C.
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Down to -1.2deg but the W wind is just starting come up.
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minus 0.9C this morning.
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Down to -1.9deg this morning
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White here on the grass this morning.
Down to minus 0.8C.
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Slight frost here this morning to start off Spring. Down to minus 0.1C.
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Thought it might have been colder than -1.8deg this morning after such a cold southerly
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