Tekapo received a fresh blanket of snow overnight. Photo / Clarkiexo / Instagram
Tekapo received a fresh blanket of snow overnight. Photo / Clarkiexo / Instagram
It may have been the coldest night of the year for many New Zealanders but that didn't stop Kiwis braving the icy conditions to capture the perfect snap.
This morning early risers were me with frost, fog and icy conditions as temperatures dropped below freezing.
As Mt Cook dropped to-13C, Aucklanders were welcomed to its coldest day in two years with temperatures dropping to 1.4C.
Whangarei dropped to 2C while Christchurch was blasted with "freezing" fog and -4C. Dunedin dropped to -2C while Gisborne was the warmest place to be last night at a low of 5C.
Herald readers from around the country braved the elements to capture the frosty conditions.
Temperatures dropped to below freezing as one Napier/Hastings farmer woke up to a finger width of ice covering the top a trough. Photo / Tash Beros / Supplied
Further up the country, Waikato residents felt the chill with water turning to ice and farmland turning to near ice skating rinks.
Residents have trouble watering the plants after hoses froze over. Photo / Shana Allan
Anyone for some trampoline ice skating? Photo / Darren & ANge Bowler
Waikato's Gordonton in the big freeze. Photo / Farren & Ange Bowler
Aucklanders also felt the full force of the cold snap.
