Frost covered parts of Cornwall Park in Hastings. Photo / Warren Buckland
Hawke's Bay woke to its coldest morning of the year on Thursday as winter's breath finally starts to show itself.
Lawns and car windshields were layered with lashings of frost as temperatures dropped to -0.7 degrees Celsius in Napier and 0.6C for Hastings at 8am, MetService meteorologist Stephen Glassey said.
The Takapau Plains plummeted to a low of -3.5C around the same time.
"The lowest temperatures are sometimes recorded at this time of the morning as it's had the whole night to cool down," Glassey said.
The weather should stay "fine" with temperatures looking to slowly increase throughout the day; both Napier and Hastings have a forecasted high of 14C late afternoon.
