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Slight frosting noticed on the trailer decking and on garden straw this morning before sun up, air temp reached a min of 2.7deg
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Second frost for the month, this time a bit colder on +1.2deg with slight frosting on the car. Dam this global boiling :mad:
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Third morning this Feb with a light frost, got as low as +1.7deg
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First frost for autumn although only very light. Air termp min of +2.3 at 6.30am
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My Westerfield Spy also reported a light frost on Wednesday.
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Orion wrote: Thu 07/03/2024 07:29 My Westerfield Spy also reported a light frost on Wednesday.
Was close to a Frost in Ashburton also. Was ice on the roof of my car in Allenton at 6.30 yesterday morning.
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Ice on the car roof is a frost really.
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-4 in Twizel this morning. Slight frost here in Halswell too
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Down to -1.1deg, the first subzero for the year
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Not quite a frost here this morning but close to it. No ice on truck window.
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First frost here this morning.
Down to 1.4°C overnight.
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Ice on truck window this morning. Down to 3C.
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The growing season of 2023-24 here has been a right mongrel starting with a late spring frost that caught many local gardeners out, this end of the season plant killing frosts have arrived earlier than past 10+ years.
This mornings frost was -1.2deg
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A light frost on lawn this morning, also visible on parked cars and house roofs.
Was -0.3°C elsewhere in town.
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A low of -2.9°C for Christchurch on your Saturday morning (27th August). I am guessing this is the airport site? This tweet from MetService states this was the third lowest April temperature at this site since 1954.

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 6380200000
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Simon Culling wrote: Sun 28/04/2024 08:58 A low of -2.9°C for Christchurch on your Saturday morning (27th August). I am guessing this is the airport site? This tweet from MetService states this was the third lowest April temperature at this site since 1954.

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 6380200000
Yes, Christchurch Aero's lowest ever April temp is -4.0°C in 1979, followed by -3.0°C in 1976 from records since 1954.

I see Richard's NIWA CWS (Medbury) also got down to a nippy -4.4°C yesterday (27th).
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Nev wrote: Sun 28/04/2024 12:12
Simon Culling wrote: Sun 28/04/2024 08:58 A low of -2.9°C for Christchurch on your Saturday morning (27th August). I am guessing this is the airport site? This tweet from MetService states this was the third lowest April temperature at this site since 1954.

https://twitter.com/MetService/status/1 ... 6380200000
Yes, Christchurch Aero's lowest ever April temp is -4.0°C in 1979, followed by -3.0°C in 1976 from records since 1954.

I see Richard's NIWA CWS (Medbury) also got down to a nippy -4.4°C yesterday (27th).
Been a bit slack looking lately, thought it must have been a good frost, killed off the leaves on my kiwifruit vines which grow under a cabbage tree patch
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A -1.6deg frost this morning
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Ice on the truck window this morning, down to 0.5C.
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Down to -3.8deg, and this is with no snow on the maintains. Jase pointed out this wife's tale nonsense out a week or so.
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Richard wrote: Tue 07/05/2024 08:08 Down to -3.8deg, and this is with no snow on the maintains. Jase pointed out this wife's tale nonsense out a week or so.
Yes very much so there Richard, however there is snow through the interior of the Alps and eastern foothills here. So the cold air would certainly spread around abit I would think.
Happy to be wrong though.
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Slight frosting here this morning with ice on truck window and a wee bit crunchy on the lawn around 7am. Down to zero.
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