The Autumn chill set in for the South Island over the weekend. Photo / Getty Images
Autumn chills have set in for Otago and other parts of the South Island, with a further bite on the way.
Otago woke this morning to the chilliest start of the year so far, with overnight temperatures of -0.9C in Dunedin, -0.5C in Alexandra, while Queenstown recorded its coldest
morning of 0.2C, MetService tweeted.
A front moving over the South Island had introduced a lot of cold air into the region, sinking the mercury lower, MetService meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane said.
"What that did is it brought in a lot of cold air behind it, and the sky was fairly clear overnight, so that served to further drop temperatures.
