Life is hard enough for people trying to recover from the earthquakes, but the recent weather that has brought record lows has made things that much harder
Christchurch:
Coldest day on record
Cantabrians
expecting to wake to another bone-chilling morning can at least take
comfort from official figures showing that Wednesday was
Christchurch's coldest day on record.
8
June, 2012
Further
chaos and disruption is expected on roads this morning after
temperatures dipped several degrees below freezing overnight.
The
cold snap is a hangover from Wednesday's heavy snow, when the maximum
temperature at Christchurch Airport in the official 24-hour period
from 9am that day reached a pitiful 0.4 degrees Celsius.
The
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) said that
was the city's lowest day maximum in nearly 149 years of
record-keeping.
Until
Wednesday, the record was the daily maximum of 1.2C measured in the
Christchurch Botanic Gardens on July 22, 1918.
While
readings began in the gardens in 1863, figures have only been taken
at the airport since 1954, where the previous coldest day maximum was
1.7C on August 28, 1992, during that year's big snow.
Early
yesterday morning the mercury dipped to -5.8C at the airport, only
slowly rising above freezing after 11am and peaking around 4.9C at
1pm before falling below freezing again by 5pm.
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