SHARP FROSTS AFTER SNOW

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27090, 13 July 1953, Page 10

SHARP FROSTS AFTER SNOW

SOME ROAD SURFACES ICY tThere was a sharp frost in Christchurch yesterday after the cold snap e early on Saturday morning that n brought snow to the hilltops on Banks ° Peninsula and a light coating to the Port Hills overlooking Christchurch, d The frost reading at the weather office ’ s at Harewood yesterday morning was 10.4 degrees and at the Magnetic Sur--1“ ve y * n the Botanic Gardens it was 10 degrees. A frost of 4.2 degrees was reD. corded at Harewood on Saturday i- morning. Frosts of more than 20 degrees have been recorded at Fairlie this winter ’ but the reading yesterday morning ’s was only 8 degrees. Between the Rakaia Gorge and the power station at ’ s Highbank, where about an inch of ;r snow had been on the ground, there was only a 7.3 degree frost yesterday • s morning. >; There was a trace of snow and hail on Christchurch lawns on Saturday s morning but as the weather came out a> clear and sunny this and the snow on >_ the hills overlooking the city quickly a, disappeared. Mr L. D. Pickles, the chief service ig officer of the Automobile Association c - (Canterbury), said last evening thal most of the snow had now gone on the West Coast road through Otira, but it was still fairly icy at Otira and Porters Pass and motorists were ad- • vised to carry chains. On the Lewis Pass route, Mr Pickles said, some _ motorists were getting through withP out chains, but the road was also icy in shady places and travellers were

advised to have chains with them. He 1 said that the combination of heavy ; frosts and wet road surfaces was mak- ’ ing conditions icy. 1 Snow fell in the streets of Lyttelton ■ on Saturday morning for the first time this winter. The first flakes began to 1 fall about 2.30 a.m., and until about ' 6.15 a.m. there were several quite thick ’ falls. Accompanying rain did not ; allow the snow to lie for long.