Travelled through Central yesterday - beautiful day and no hint of ice on Coalpit, Idaburn or the Manorburn dams. Warm temps. This morning was a good frost though which put a thin sheet of ice on part of the Lower Monorburn. C'mon the frost!
Dave, do you have any idea how thick that sheet of ice was?
I'm just wondering how thick a sheet like that can get considering that it wasn't actually very cold in Alex last night (-3 deg. C according to the NIWA records).
Hmmmmm....does look like a shortened season..:-( Lets hope it just arrives with some big intensity....think the ground is still too warm at the moment, we need a big snowfall to cool everything down....keep up the good work Cheers Clive
You are right Clive - the warm ground! Still very soft - a few locals have commented that they were able to garden last weekend - usually they can't dig the ground at this time of the year!
Ice was around 2mm thick (good for spider skating...). A good few hard frost would get it underway properly but the days just get too warm.
Travelled through Central yesterday - beautiful day and no hint of ice on Coalpit, Idaburn or the Manorburn dams. Warm temps. This morning was a good frost though which put a thin sheet of ice on part of the Lower Monorburn. C'mon the frost!
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Well at least that's a start I guess.
I'm sure we'll get some ice soon, but isn't looking promising for a lot of it unfortunately :(
If I get up in time, I might go do some inspecting closer to home tomorrow morning.
Dave, do you have any idea how thick that sheet of ice was?
I'm just wondering how thick a sheet like that can get considering that it wasn't actually very cold in Alex last night (-3 deg. C according to the NIWA records).
Hmmmmm....does look like a shortened season..:-(
Lets hope it just arrives with some big intensity....think the ground is still too warm at the moment, we need a big snowfall to cool everything down....keep up the good work
Cheers
Clive
You are right Clive - the warm ground! Still very soft - a few locals have commented that they were able to garden last weekend - usually they can't dig the ground at this time of the year!
Ice was around 2mm thick (good for spider skating...). A good few hard frost would get it underway properly but the days just get too warm.
Thanks Dave.
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