Weather

Otago experienced an unusually heavy rainfall for October yesterday, with rivers rising, roads closed, surface flooding and minor slips in the east of the region.

Photos by Peter McIntosh, Linda Robertson, Gerard O'Brien and Stephen Jaquiery; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

Pictures of the damage caused by strong winds on Tuesday.

Prints of photos available from Otago Images.

Otago Daily Times readers share their photos of the unusual cloud formation, believed by many to have been an aircraft vapour trail, seen over Dunedin on Thursday morning.

A selection of photos by our photographers and readers of the flooding on Saturday. Prints of the ODT photos are available from otagoimages.co.nz.

• Full story on the weekend's flooding in Monday's Otago Daily Times

'Two thousand feet above worry level' is now a few inches higher as Naseby is carpeted in snow.

Stacy Herd, from the Naseby Royal Hotel, said that it had been snowing since Thursday morning, although she expected rain would wash away the late spring snow overnight.

Although it had not snowed in Alexandra, Cromwell or Ranfurly, temperatures there ranged from 3degC to 6degC yesterday at 3pm.

That was cold enough for Iceinline, Alexandra's ice-skating rink, to open last night.

It was the first time it had opened this year.

Photos by Craig Baxter; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

Dunedin writer Dave Cull illustrated his new book on Otago's dramatic weather using photos from the Otago Daily Times archives. Photo prints (and the book too) are available from otagoimages.co.nz or from Star Stationery Shop, Lower Stuart St, Dunedin.

Sucession of photos on the Cleddau avalanche site after 25kg of explosive was dropped from a helicopter. The winding Milford road is visible, snow-covered, at right. Photos by NZ Transport Agency.