Stuff, New Zealand
"The worst snow fall in 15 years has brought large parts of the country to a standstill, with Christchurch blanketed overnight and residents told to stay at home. Flights out of the South Island have been badly disrupted with Christchurch and Dunedin airports closed, while Queenstown and Invercargill airports were experiencing delays. ....Meanwhile, 200 people were stranded in a hall north of Dunedin this morning. Dunedin police said the group were staying warm with hot tea and coffee after getting stuck in snow on State Highway 1. ...Student Alison Grant, from Riccarton, looked outside her window and couldn't help but gasp. "Wow so much snow, wow" she said. "There is a lot of snow, ankle-deep at least. It's still going really quite hard." She was planning to spend the day enjoying the snow outside as the university was closed, she said. "I played outside last night as well. I'm going to enjoy the snow while it lasts." "It's the first time I've seen snow like this," she said. Sarah Joynson, from Redwood, was up early and also went outside to enjoy the snow, and said friends had done the same. "We don't have snow like this ever."
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Yesterday was Wellington's coldest since records began in the 1940s and Auckland had its fifth-coldest day on record.
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