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It’s a cold start across New Zealand today as a wintry snap continues to hold over the nation.

Starting in the north and Auckland has a wide temperature range with 4 degrees inland at Whenuapai and 7 degrees in more urban locations.

Hamilton has 1, while Paeroa and Rotorua have 2.  Taupo has 3.

New Plymouth and Hawera are both on 2.

Palmerston North and Levin both have 0 right now.

Wellington sounds warm on 9 but a strong southerly still blowing.

In the South Island and temperatures are even lower.  -1 in Blenheim and Dunedin with -2 in Timaru.

Christchurch, Hokitika and Westport have 2, while Oamaru has 1.

It’s -1 at Dunedin, Lumsden and Gore, 0 in in Invercargil and was -4 in Queenstown but now -3.

Tara Hills in Central Otago currently has -5.

WeatherWatch estimate other parts of Central Otago, where there are no automatic weather observations, dropped as low as -8 this morning.

Temps as of 8:20am