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Snow in Calcutta St, Khandallah, on August 14, 2011.
It has been a glorious weekend in Wellington after a long, cold and wet winter.
The sun has been out and temperature climbed above 10C on both Saturday and Sunday – quite a feat when considering the first nine days of August averaged just 3.8 hours of sunshine a day.
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The same scene on a warm-ish Sunday, 11 years later.
But it could be worse. Exactly 11 years ago, the capital had a huge snow dump not seen since the 1970s.
It was described at the time as a “once in a generation” storm.
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A thick layer of snow in the surburb of Brooklyn in 2011.
The snowfall was the first time since 1976 a storm of that severity had hit Wellington and August 15 was the second-coldest day since records began at Wellington Airport in 1959.
Strong southerly gales, fresh off the Antarctic ice-shelf, lashed New Zealand making it feel bitterly cold and creating blizzard conditions in places.
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Same day, 11 years later. Snow-free and loving it.
There were power outages, school and road closures, treacherous driving conditions and public transport cancellations.
Yo-yoing weather patterns appear to be here to stay, however. Kiwis have watched temperatures soar to 40C in Europe and North America leading to deaths, fires, failed crops and widespread drought.
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Niwa weather forecaster Nava Fedaeff says as we look into the future heatwaves are expected to become more common.
But as the days start to get longer Niwa weather forecaster Nava Fedaeff said she wouldn’t be surprised if New Zealand had its own heatwaves that broke records this summer.
“We haven’t had 40C in the North Island yet, but I wouldn’t consider that to be unlikely,” Fedaeff said.
New Zealand’s most recent 40-plus day recorded was in 2011 at Timaru Airport.
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