Christchurch residents woke to a cold morning.
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Parts of the South Island are waking up to freezing temperatures this morning.
At about 6am on Tuesday Christchurch was -1.8C with fine weather with a high of 11C forecast for the city.
In Queenstown it was -1.1C early in the morning with a forecast of fine weather, light winds and a high of 9C.
MetService shows the coldest temperature early Tuesday morning was Twizel at -5.2C at 6am with a high of 4C forecast in Twizel for Tuesday.
The warmest place in Aotearoa before 7am was Auckland’s North Shore with 11.4C.
MetService said it was a frosty start to the day for Canterbury and Marlborough, but overall Tuesday was forecast to be relatively settled apart from the odd shower or two.
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