We recently had one of the coldest spells in living memory. Some say it was a once in 50 year event, others once in 100 years.
Snow was down to sea level with power outages right across the country. The cold snap rolled in on 14 August 2011 with the greatest snow falls on 16-17 August.
It’s snowed here in Upper Hutt at the base of the valley twice in my lifetime that I remember. Once was when I was a child, during the night but the snow didn’t settle. The other was just a month ago, but it lasted only for a few hours and then melted.
This polar blast was sucked up straight from Antarctica and dumped over New Zealand. The snow has melted now – but I captured the scenes on my trusty Canon point and click, and now you can enjoy it too 
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