About 5cm of snow fell around the Queenstown area today, MetService forecaster Gerard Barrow said.
"Basically, they have had as much snow as they are going to get. The snow will now be falling as showers."
Concerns for children travelling to school prompted Queenstown Primary School and Wakatipu High School to close for the day, and police urged people not to use the roads unless necessary.
Snow and ice through the Lindis Pass kept State Highway 6 between Omarama and Tarras closed this morning.
A small group of truck drivers kept a patience vigil during a chilly morning at Tarras as they waited for the road to reopen, after a southerly front brought snow and freezing temperatures overnight on Tuesday.
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Star Moving driver Lenze Pander told the Otago Daily Times he had been forced to turn his truck back about 10km north of Morven Hills Station when snow on the road began to turn into thick ice, at about 7am.
"There was a terrible freeze going on up there. I reckon there was about 10cm of frozen snow and ice,'' he said.
By the time he had turned back, falling snow had covered all of the truck tyre marks his vehicle had made during the drive up to near the Lindis Pass, he said.
