5 years on from the 'big snow' of August 2011

The photos in this blog were taken by MetService staff in August 2011.

Image by Ian Attwood

Photo taken by Ian in Karori, a western suburb of Welington.

We’ve just come out of a cold, snowy spell – the most significant of this winter so far. Ski fields nationwide are well topped-up, the Tararua range has been textured with snow after a pretty bare winter, and parts of the central North Island continue to suffer the effects of substantial snowfalls and drifts.