Frost reports 2023

[darcyplumb]

Currently -1.8c with cloud developing. Not as white as yesterday.

[Orion]

Was -1.1°C at 6:40am here, mackerel sky and thin high cloud lowering.

Still -1.0°C.

[darcyplumb]

Was -1.1°C at 6:40am here, mackerel sky and thin high cloud lowering.

Still -1.0°C.

I think It’s going to be a slow thaw this morning. Metservice showing -2.3c currently and the cloud is blocking the sun.

[JP.]

Strange night in Christchurch, went to bed at 11pm and it was -2c on MS and was expecting one of the coldest mornings this year. Instead the NE blew in and it only got warmer from midnight. Was 2c at 8am

[Richard]

Ripper frost here, -6deg was the min at 7.30am and again at 8.40. Great weather for the mid winter swim today at Waikuku beach, something to look forward to.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Good frost here this morning, down to minus 3.1C with some remnants still hanging around at midday in sheltered areas.

[Richard]

Down to -1.9deg this morning

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Frosting here this morning around 6am before the southerly came through and clouded over. Down to zero.

[Richard]

Got down to -3.7 at 1.40am then the NW wind arrived

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Got down to minus 1.1C in the early hours of this morning before high cloud moved in and got rid of the frost.

[Richard]

A low of -0.9 this morning at 7.30-40am

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Low of minus 0.1C with frost on the ground at 7am.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Frosty late night yesterday and early this morning but going off as cloud cover with some drizzle moved in early morning, down to minus 1.4C.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Light frosting on the lawn this morning, also ice on the truck window.
Down to 0,5C.

[Orion]

My thermometer showing -1.2°C earlier this morning. Lawn very white, frost showing on house roofs etc.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

White frost here this morning, down to minus 1.7C.

[Richard]

Frost temps from the last two mornings were -4.1deg and -3.2deg today

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Another frost here this morning, down to minus 1.5C.

[Richard]

A light frost this morning before the NW wind came up around dawn

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Good white frost here this morning but only down to minus 1.1C.

[Simon Culling]

Hello John + Richard - with two of your coldest months now completed, how many air frosts have you had this year?

[Richard]

Hello John + Richard - with two of your coldest months now completed, how many air frosts have you had this year?

Ive counted 25 total of below freezing temps

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[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Hello John + Richard - with two of your coldest months now completed, how many air frosts have you had this year?

28 so far, Simon. Don't seem to be as severe this year compared to previous years since we have been here in Geraldine.

[Simon Culling]

Thanks Richard + John.

Richard - 25 in the two months that would correspond to Dec/Jan in the UK is not a bad number - here in Tiverton in the SW of the UK, the average for those two months would be around 15-16 currently. In 2022, we had only 28 air frosts in the entire year at my site in the town.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

There was slight frosting on the ground when we came back from the local pub quiz last night (ice on truck window)but it went off during the night as it clouded over from the south. 2C when I went out and collected the newspaper at 6:30am this morning.