New Zealand capital delights in rare snowfall as southern city residents ski down world’s steepest street

Snow in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Photograph: Mark Stevenson

Temperatures have plummeted across New Zealand as an Antarctic cold snap hovers over the country, delighting the capital, Wellington, which experienced snow for the first time in 15 years, while giving a southern city’s residents a chance to ski through the streets.

The front moved in on Tuesday, with much of the country waking to freezing conditions, frosts, snowfall, hail and bitingly cold wind.