Frosts 2018

[kiwisk8er]

Our first proper frost in Tawa this morning, the ground is white, and -1.1 at Porirua Metservice weather station down the road.

[Bradley]

5C colder then our previous coldest temp of the year with -5.9C here in a west Melton

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Good frost this morning with traces of it around to after noon. Bird-bath frozen.
Down to minus 2.7C.

[Razor]

Zero here by 6:30pm, could be a ripper tonight

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Frosty here now with some ice in some watery spots. Minus 1.
Just got a note in my letterbox saying that "We noticed your chimney smoking for more than 15 minutes"

[Dean.]

Frosty here now with some ice in some watery spots. Minus 1.
Just got a note in my letterbox saying that "We noticed your chimney smoking for more than 15 minutes"

Minus 2.3 up the road here...coldest night of the year I'd say

[Dean.]

Minus 4.3 at 6.30am, Ashburton the coldest in the country

[Orion]

^ yes, another -4° morning, as yesterday when the lawn was very white and the frost was on top of shrubs 6' or more in height.
Brrr.

[Richard]

Slightly warmer this morning on -4.1 deg

[Skywatcher]

Colder here this morning with -3.7C, yesterday was -3.5C

[03Stormchaser]

Colder here this morning with -3.7C, yesterday was -3.5C

Looked like a heavier frost here this morning, very unscientific analyses...

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Slightly warmer this morning on -4.1 deg

You wouldn't of needed the extra blanket then??
Minus 3.5C here with it still at minus 3.1C as the sun was getting up this morning at 8am.
Very white with the bird-bath frozen completely solid. I'd say the ground minimum would of been minus 5 or colder.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Frosty last night and overnight until about 8am, when it suddenly went NW. Down to minus 1.3C. overnight prior to then.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Down to minus 1.2C overnight. Don't know when that was recorded because it was quite mild when I went off to bed last night and there was a bit of a NW blowing with a 5C temperature reading and when I went out to get the paper, this morning around 8am, it was up to 5C then as well.

[Simon Culling]

A number of recent tweets from MetService have referenced temperatures at Mt Hutt, but I cannot find a trace for an official station at this location. The tweets give minimums of -8.9*C on the 24th and -10.1*C on the morning of the 26th (today).

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 9933127680

Can anyone provide further details on this site - location + elevation? Is it at the ski resort?

[spwill]

Will be on the ski field, permanent Winter snow there

[Nev]

Yeah, NIWA's old Mt Hutt Skifield WS was at about 1600m asl (summit is about 2190m asl).

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Slight frost here this morning. Down to minus 1C.

[David]

Got down to 1C in Howick, with a light frost. I see parts of rural S/SE Auckland showing -2C

[Richard]

A light and very dry frost this morning , -0.9 and there's no white ice to be seen, apart from a just a wee bit on the car

[cbm]

Recorded -1.7C. The ground was still very wet from rain that only stopped at 4pm yesterday. Patches of ice visible on road this morning but far as I know no accidents caused by it locally.

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[jamie]

Recorded -1.7C. The ground was still very wet from rain that only stopped at 4pm yesterday. Patches of ice visible on road this morning but far as I know no accidents caused by it locally.

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Yea massive ice lakes on the paddocks this morning. Never seen so much frozen water here before. Not often we have so much rain until almost sunset then freeze overnight.


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[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

No frost here this morning which I thought was quite unusual considering the cold air moving across the country. Down to plus 2.5c.

[tgsnoopy]

Best frost of the year here so far in my opinion. Had a delayed start/late finish day. Started the van at about 8.40am. took a good 5 mins to clear the frost ice on the windscreen sufficiently for me to drive away. I could use water to clear it, but prefer to use other alternatives that don't risk cracking windscreens or your window fogging up as soon as you drive off. Besides that, it's a longish uphill driveway

[Simon Culling]

Hello tgsnoopy - I remember (many moons ago) watching a gentleman bring a boiling kettle to his car and pour its contents over his frozen windscreen - only for it to shatter! As he was built like a brick shithouse, I kept my laughing internal.