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  1. 29 minutes ago, Day 10 said:

    Dropping like a stone tonight! - 5.2c, must be the coldest night for a number of years here and still has legs yet.

    That's pretty extraordinary. Still fluctuating between -0.7 and -1.0C here. If the inversion ceiling rises above 100m we might be able to join the party too!

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  2. Seems we are at the very edge of the inversion layer here, the temperature has not gone that low but its up and down like the Assyrian empire, which suggests the inversion layer is shallow but powerful. Now its -2.3C and rising fast, but it will fall equally as fast soon.

    I suppose in a way its like air turbulence. 

     

     

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  3. Being a Gardener is handy because you can tell from plant damage what the temperature was in a particular place. 

    For example I know the plant in flower below doesn't tolerate lower than -3C so it can't have been lower than -3C in this location. On the other hand, the plant after that has some slight damage which would start occurring at -2C so I can guess from this in this location it was about -2.5C so far, based on the plant damage when it was taken yesterday. (Both will look damaged today in comparison)

    Also you can verify how accurate your sensor is using this.. for example -8C will damage green Cordylines so if your sensor read -8C and you have damaged Cordyline after the ice thaws, you know its broadly accurate

    Plants are useful indicators for sure.

     

     

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  4. Temperatures are going to widely fall to around -5 to -10C around the region tonight. 

    Here temperatures are falling, perhaps not as fast as other places, but it will be -5C at this rate, by dawn, at least.

    If there is an inversion layer, it could result in some freakishly low temperature by dawn. That's how our record cold was broken in 2010, courtesy of a mid-level inversion. Could happen again tonight. 

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  5. -4.5C, .. I'll have to check but I think that's equal with 2018 and the joint coldest since December 2010. Very strong surface cold in this spell.

    No fog yet either. 

    Ice day looks likely? It will be the first ice day since I started recording in the early 2000s, if it occurs. (Believe it or not December 2010 did not deliver an ice day here as on the day after the coldest night we saw milder air coming in, in the evening, above 0C)

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  6. Coldest temperatures since the beast in 2018 here with -4.0C at the moment.

    This actually almost meets the average absolute minimum in the LTA here which is -4.2C in any given winter.

    We will almost certainly beat -4.2 today but it has taken a hard cold spell and snow cover to meet that average.

    (The LTA for average absolute minimum in winter in the last 10 years on my recordings is -1.7C however)

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