The Department of Conservation National Park Visitor Centre was reporting a couple of centimetres of “pretty gorgeous” snow on the ground at Whakapapa Village and while visitor traffic was light early on, the centre said, traffic up the Bruce Rd had been constant on Monday. Wiggins told
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Ohakune businesses were revelling in the prediction of a good dumping of snow on Tuesday. “If you get heaps of snow too early, everyone gets excited, but you get more rainstorms that wash it away, so it’s a bit of a tease.” After mid-June temperatures cool down and tend to stay cold. While recent humid heavy rain had washed away early snow, such storms were part of the required weather pattern, he said.
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