Also a couple of comments from The Dominion Post...
Couple of other interesting stories...Capital spared freak weather
Last updated 05:00 15/09/2009
... The temperature in Christchurch jumped from 9 degrees celsius to 21C in just 20 minutes before 9am yesterday. MetService spokesman Robert Kerr said the temperature spike would have been caused by moisture in the air being "rained out" over the West Coast before it blew across the Southern Alps and arrived in Christchurch. "That's just a big jump. It will be going on above Christchurch quite commonly but it won't always get to the surface." ... The temperature in Masterton jumped from 8C to 16C in two hours yesterday morning. "They're getting a similar effect but on nowhere near the same sort of scale." ...
'Strong winds buffet Otago'
'We're eating their dust and now they want it back'
EDIT: Amended error for Oamaru Aero.