More winter weather from the Southern Ocean will deliver the South another dollop of frigid temperatures and sea-level snow today, the MetService says.
A cold front bringing strong southwest winds was expected to make landfall on the south coast around midnight last night, and snow showers should reach Dunedin's hill suburbs around mid-morning today.
While Southland and Fiordland were expected to receive the heaviest snow - MetService predicted ''significant accumulations'' above 300m - flurries to low levels would be seen throughout Otago, MetService meteorologist Rob Kerr said yesterday.
Snow was expected to fall across the South, but those ''significant accumulations'' above 300m were not predicted for Dunedin and Otago.
The strong winds would be paired with low temperatures - a high of just 6degC was expected for most of Otago today - while tonight's lows would drop to 2degC in Dunedin and to -4degC in Alexandra and Queenstown.
While cold, the front's southwest direction meant it was coming off the Southern Ocean, not the Antarctic, Mr Kerr said.
That meant temperatures would not drop to the severe lows recorded earlier this month.
The front would hit Oamaru by noon today and Wellington by midnight, he said.
