Temps plummet below zero, early snow falls in South Island, New Zealand -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:33 UTC Mt Roy looking over Lake Wanaka on Tuesday morning.Winter has arrived slightly early in the South Island, with freezing temperatures and dustings of snow in many places this morning. A midnight storm dumped about a centimetre of snow onto the Porters Alpine Resort near Castle Hill near Arthur's Pass early this morning. And parts of inland Canterbury and Otago woke to below-zero temperatures, down to -3.2 deg C. Porters operations manager Blair James hoped the cold snap was an early indicator of good snowfall this season. He said the dump marked two weeks in a row of...