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Re: Frosts 2019

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Thanks John - its good to see you are getting some decent wintry weather. A sharp frost lingering well into a sunny day is one of the joys of winter.

EDIT: According to the MetService page for Canterbury High Country, Twizel had a low of -8°C on Wednesday 5th June.
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Simon Culling wrote: Sat 08/06/2019 09:22 Thursday morning had a sharp frost in the south according to a MetService tweet. Tekapo recorded -7.3°C and Timaru Airport -4.5°C. Is that the lowest so far this winter?
Not sure about that MetService/NZ Transport AWS about 9km SW of the Tekapo township. Although NIWA's Tekapo Aero EWS about 3km west of the township and 760m asl also recorded -7.3C just before 5am on Thursday (6th), it was down to -8.7C around midnight. However, it was even colder last Monday (3rd) with -9.2C just before 9am that morning. Pukaki Aero (470m asl) near Twizel recorded -7.6C on Wednesday (5th).
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Down to -3.3 deg this morning
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Crystal clear and calm, but no frost here. Low 2.5. This is a September/October type early morning, not June.

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Frost this morning. Down to minus 1C.
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Frosty start today
Down to minus 1.2C here, this morning.
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A clear night and only made it as far as -0.7deg and after all that resent cold air left over too.
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Frosty start today
Down to minus 1.6C here, this morning.
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Down to -4.3 at 6.00am
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Looks like I've bottomed out at -1.0C. A breeze bounced the temp back up to 5.9 at 1am, so only 2.5 hours below freezing. There must be heavier frost than this coming before the end of winter. That said, last winter I did not go below -0.1C after July 4 which was quite extrodianary.

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-1.5°C at present, white frost on lawn. Clear sky, sun's up.
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Got down to -5.3C here at 7am, a 4C difference between here and the airport :-k
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Down to 1.9C in Howick, cold enough for some light frosting on the roofs and some cars, but didn't notice any on the grass.
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No frost here but picking there would be quite a bit of ground frost west and south Auckland earlier, the low lying parts.
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spwill wrote: Wed 19/06/2019 08:51 No frost here but picking there would be quite a bit of ground frost west and south Auckland earlier, the low lying parts.
There was good consistency between PWS around Riverhead in particular at around -1C, so no warmer than here.
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First hard frost in Rakaia this morning. Ice was scraped off the windscreens of both buses. Other mornings we have only had a slight touch of frost which has just started to appear at day break.
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Good white frost here this morning, down to minus 4.4C.
Traces of frost still around shaded areas from the sun late this afternoon.
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Minus 4.2 here this morn. That's colder than all of last winter.😤
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Got as low as -4.4 at 2.00am then started t warm from then on
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-1.8°C here at present, lawn white, pretty sunrise :)
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Another good white frost this morning but advancing cloud cover from the NW meant that the frost cover went off much quicker than yesterday. Down to minus 4.6C, the coldest night of the year so far.
As there is no sun, the day remains cold with it sitting around the 6C mark.
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Re: Frosts 2019

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Not so bad locally this morning, but traveling down to Opotiki (From Otumoetai, Tauranga) I saw plenty of isolated patches of frost and fog, can't say I've noticed that before. Sadly my current work vehicle lacks an external temperature display (something I should look at resolving), so I'm unable to draw any conclusions err make any assumptions.
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-1.2°C at the moment, lawn white, sky clear, sunlight nearly starting to show.
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Another frost overnight/this morning but not as severe as the last 2 mornings. Down to minus 2.5C.
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No frost here thanks to wind
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