The residents of Norsewood awoke to a winter wonderland this morning with snow coated houses, hedges and roads.
A severe weather warning for snow remains in place today with heavy snow expected above 600 metres until this evening and lesser amounts down to 400 metres and 200 metres in parts of Central Hawke's Bay and Tararua District.
Norsewood farmer Lyn McConchie said they had about three inches of snow overnight and when she opened her curtains she was greeted to windows covered in solid snow.
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"I knew there had been southerly as it was all right up against my window and when I walked down through the snow to get the paper the hedge had been snow blasted on the other side."