
© GLENN JEFFREY/STUFFMt Taranaki received a summer dump of snow overnight on Saturday.
Whoever asked Santa for a white Christmas got their wish, with Mt Taranaki receiving a
good dump of snow overnight on Saturday.The maunga was donned in a fresh coat of white, down to about 1400m, as the sun rose on Sunday after temperatures dropped to an unseasonably chilly level.
Rob Needs, of Taranaki Mountain Shuttles, said he dropped a group off at North Egmont about 7.45am.
"I didn't even get out of the car because I thought it was going to be cold," Needs said.
The snow had reached as low as Tahurangi Lodge at 1500 metres and was the result of the southerly weather system moving up the country, he said.
Comment: Summer snow in parts of South Island, New Zealand