Warm weather on display at Dunedin's Queens Garden today. Photo: ODTEnjoy the warm weather while it lasts. Metservice has put out a heavy snow watch, a strong wind watch and heavy rain watch for areas about the South as an active front begins to move up the South Island from Sunday evening. A heavy snow watch is in place for North Otago, Central Otago, Southern Lakes, Clutha, Southland, Fiordland and Dunedin where snow was expected to fall to lower than 300m inland early Monday morning and to about 500m near the coast. A strong wind watch was in place from 9am on Sunday in Central Otago, Southern Lakes, Clutha, Southland, Stewart Island where northwesterly winds could approach gale force at times.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 15, 2018 03:27 UTC