New Zealand is currently experiencing a polar blast. There is snow right down to the sea. This particular blast is expected to last at least three days. While it is causing massive disruption ALL over the country, it also makes for some beautiful photos
Shag rock and Moncks Bay, Christchurch
Snow in Wellington
Another Wellinton Photo
Christchurch International Airport
Snow in Taranaki
More of Wellington
The Octagon in Dunedin
Video of snow in Christchurch:
3:41 PM PT: Many services are being in cancelled all over the country, buses stopped and schools closed. It is the biggest snow to hit Wellington for 40 years.
4:33 PM PT: Mail deliveries were cancelled in several parts of the country including parts of Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.
4:40 PM PT: trong winds are also buffeting the north of the country, causing injuries to a number of people in Auckland city.
Four people have been taken to Middlemore Hospital after a tree fell on their home in Pakuranga Heights, Auckland this morning.
St John duty operations manager Patsy Carlyle said the mother and her two children received minor injuries, while an older man at the same address received moderate head injuries.
St John was called out to another weather-related incident at 7am this morning when ambulance officers tended a man in his 70s who had been blown against a pole at Grafton, moderately injuring his arm.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/...
8:30 PM PT: Snow is being reported in Auckland
http://www.stuff.co.nz/...