Winter’s breath lingers

It was a chilly start to spring as a frost covered daffodils at Gardens Ground, in North Dunedin, on Tuesday morning.

It followed temperatures reaching 20deg at the weekend before snow fell across the South on Monday evening.

MetService meteorologist David Miller said temperatures reached a high of 7.8degC in Dunedin on Tuesday afternoon, up from 3.6degC at 3am, while Queenstown reached its warmest temperature of 5degC at midnight, dropping to 1.1degC by 8am.

Invercargill also had a high of 7.8degC but fell to 0.7degC at night.

Lumsden recorded the coldest temperature in Southland at -1.5degC.

But that was overtaken by Otago as temperatures fell to -3.4degC in the Crown Range and -2.3degC in Lindis Pass.