Following a report in the N Z Herald today, Raglan residents have been receiving phone calls asking if they can see the snow. WeatherWatch head analyst Philip Duncan said there had been unconfirmed reports of snow flakes falling on hills just out of Raglan. Raglan Weather tracked single digit temperatures during the day. No reports of sightings of snow have been received.
He said reports of snow fall were coming in thick and fast this morning. “We’ve had reports of snow in Lower Hutt and Wellington overnight and this morning. We’ve got reports of snow settling on the cars in Masterton for the last hour, snow at very lower levels at Lake Taupo and in Taupo itself, snow in Hawera, Stratford, Taranaki,”
Duncan said there had also been one unconfirmed report of snow near Raglan, in Waikato, however there had been very heavy hail in the region.
“This isn’t the snow storm of the century … but what makes this system different … is the low snow level, which is sea level across much of southern and eastern South Island and to very low levels right across the lower North Island. This is a national event,” Mr Duncan said.