Snow in Levin

It started snowing around 8.45am on Monday 15th August 2011, it was just a short burst of about 5 minutes, just enough to leave polka -dot wet spots on the ground. At 9.05am it came down much heavier and lasted for about 15 minutes, then nothing for another 6 hours. Around 3pm it started to snow again, quite heavily, and it kept snowing right into the night.

Someone even took a video driving through the snow along McLeavey Road, Ohau - click on photo to play the video:

By Tuesday morning there was around 2 inches of snow on the ground (in Levin, more towards the hills) and it stayed around for the rest of the day with the odd patch of snow and snowman still visible on Wednesday.

The snow fall covered Levin and surrounding area almost to Hokio Beach. Levin has only had snow right down into the town two other times in the last 40 years, in the early 70's and early 90's and these were not as large, with the snow not lasting the night.

Further afield there was more snow:

Here are photos of the snowmen etc that people built:

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