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Just like the old days when we would get a frost every month of the year, last 10 years they have pretty much become a thing of the past, so not common now to get a light non damaging frost like we have this morning. Waiting to hear back from a friend who lives where the Hurunui river leaves the Amuri plains,its the worse spot for frost in the area
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No frost here but a sudden drop in temp after 4am and no urban heat islanding, I'm on 6.4C exact same as rural MetService site. My lows have been 1-2C above that most of Jan and Feb.

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Urban heat Island back again with much lighter winds. Was worth a good 2.5 to 3C this morning. My min was 7.8

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I had 4.1 here, chilly


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jamie wrote: Wed 27/02/2019 10:00 I had 4.1 here, chilly


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2 degrees and ice on the car for the first day of March
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Pukaki Airport on -1C and Masterton 2C.
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As stated above, some low temperatures for the first day of autumn. MetService tweet gives a few figures:

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 9049099264
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First sub zero air temperature for the year, -0.6deg
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-4C at Pukaki airport this morning. Winter has arrived!
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Apparently -4.8C in omarama yesterday morning, bit cold for early April.

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Down to zero this morning. The pumpkin leaves have been bitten. Thank goodness we covered up the passionfruit last night.
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melja wrote: Sun 07/04/2019 11:24 Apparently -4.8C in omarama yesterday morning, bit cold for early April.

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Thats a heavy frost for this early
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-2.5C Air frost for Saturday and -6.2C Ground frost-1.5C Air Frost for today and -5.5 C ground frost
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melja wrote: Sun 07/04/2019 11:24 Apparently -4.8C in omarama yesterday morning, bit cold for early April.
Coldest that Tara Hills site has ever been this early in April since records began in 1950.
Its only other 6 colder April T-mins have all occurred in the last week of April.
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Light frosting on the truck window this morning.
Down to 0.6C.
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Seeing grass mins below 0 now in rural areas, but no visible ice yet. It was so warm in March my silly watermelon plant put out a new runner and set a new fruit. Curious to see how big it gets before it gets turned to mush by the first real frost.
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It must have been close to ice on the ground this morn. 2.7C Was the low here. Then again with ground temp sitting at 17C it would take a ripper frost to counter the warm convection rising from the ground.


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Down to -3C at Pukaki Airport and 1C at Taupo Airport.
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Down to 0.6C this morning.
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Pretty chilly at dusk . Think will escape a frost, if it was in three weeks time would be different. Need to figure what to do with this now giant soon.Image

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Observed frost on lawn and roofs this morning.
Clear sunny day :)
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cbm wrote: Sat 13/04/2019 17:39 Pretty chilly at dusk . Think will escape a frost, if it was in three weeks time would be different. Need to figure what to do with this now giant soon.Image

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If its in the ground and has formed a good size crown they can be cut down for the winter and covered with straw hay etc, they pop up again in spring.
Down to -0.3 this morning
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This one is in a large pot, so in theory movable, but in practice now way too heavy.

The stalks of in-ground specimums will survive some but not all winters unprotected here, just the leaves will go brown.

I have got this one including the newest leaf or two fully intact through 2 winters so far just by covering with frostcloth. Plan is to do that again but will need a large amount of cloth this time and to get right up on the top of a ladder to reach the top!
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cbm wrote: Wed 17/04/2019 18:11 This one is in a large pot, so in theory movable, but in practice now way too heavy.

The stalks of in-ground specimums will survive some but not all winters unprotected here, just the leaves will go brown.

I have got this one including the newest leaf or two fully intact through 2 winters so far just by covering with frostcloth. Plan is to do that again but will need a large amount of cloth this time and to get right up on the top of a ladder to reach the top!
I do think its better to sacrifice that growth to be able to get it in the ground where it will be a lot safer against frost, above ground the root ball is prone to the cold.
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