coldest temperature recorded in new zealand
New Zealand has nearly shuddered itself to the MetService's record books after Mackenzie Country plummeted to -20 degrees overnight. MetService Meteorologist Stephen Glassy said most of the South Island recorded sub-zero temperatures including the -20 at the Pukaki Aerodrome on the edge of Lake Pukaki. Lake Tekapo and Mt Cook Airport got down to -13 degrees, while Queenstown, Alexandra and Lumsden hit -7 degrees. Mr Glassey said the bone-chilling -20 degrees recorded at Pukaki was close to the country's coldest ever recorded of -25.6 in Ranfurly in 1903. So that's very cold.. Dunedin Airport and Blenheim were -5 degrees, while Dunedin city was just below 0 degrees, he said.