air frost

noun

1. the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°C

Example Sentences

In England it would represent the earliest air frost in five years, and in Northern Ireland the earliest in six.

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If a weather station in Wales drops below 0C it will be the earliest air frost since 1996.

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As winds fall lighter overnight it is even possible that Friday morning could start with an air frost - where temperatures drop below freezing.

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Nick Wenman, founder and owner of Albury Organic Vineyard in Surrey, said it was the air frost that was particularly damaging, with three bad nights last week - the worst being the night of 26 April.

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The air frost that hit last week caused "catastrophic" damage to buds that had bloomed earlier than usual thanks to a warm start to the year.

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