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Here we go again for another year.

Snow on the hills and frost on the grass this morning, +1.4deg.
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A very light frost here this morning with ice on the car roof
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Thought you might have. :mrgreen:
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Orion wrote:Thought you might have. :mrgreen:
Yes she's bloody chilly out there, the gauge is saying 4.1deg which seems a little high for ice to be forming
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Ice on the car here too with a low of 1.9 degrees.
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Bit of ice on the car roof this morning, 2.1deg currently
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Coolish overnight here too, down to 3.2C.
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first proper frost here this year with ice on car and ground, low was -0.5c
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Light one here too, got down to +2deg
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Air temp down to +1.2 C at my place;
observed patches of light frost on shaded grass and swirls of ice patterns on parked cars during my walk half an hour ago.
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Frost here this morning (West Melton that is) on our last dey here.
Down to minus 1C. overnight. o_O
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-3.5 here yesterday
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Got as low as -2,6deg Tuesday morning , +14deg this morning
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First ice on the vehicles in New Brighton this morning. Nothing yesterday, West Chch had their first frost yesterday I believe.
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Quite white this morning with -2.1deg
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First air frost for my station this year -1.1C
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Frost here early this morning but cleared away with cloud cover moving in .
Down to minus 1.3C.
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Frost here this morning, down to minus 1.
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Air temp. here +0.9deg. C at present, lawn white with frost.
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Frost here this morning after all that rubbish cleared away from the SW.
Down to minus 1.3C.
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Air temp. +1.5deg. C here at present, a light rime visible on lawn and roof.
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frost here this morning, down to minus 3 near the woodshed.
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Had a cloud cover at sunup but 9.00pm last night there was a strong SW and the wet grass was frozen.
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A rather chilly one this morning with -4.2deg
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Our first ground frost for the year in Tawa.
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