He said the weather would be a "ramp up" of what was seen on Saturday and there were several active weather warnings. Bellam said the whole country should keep up to date with forecasts, warnings and watches as the weather was affecting large parts of the country. "Especially in the South Island, we have a lot of road snow warnings out across most of those higher road passes." The Queenstown Lakes district has a heavy snow watch in place until 3pm Sunday, with snow down to 400m and heavy snow expected above 700m. Westland Buller and the Canterbury High Country also have a strong wind warning in place, which will last until Monday afternoon.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 11, 2022 21:23 UTC