MikeB4:

 

Wellington, that's it.

 

 

 

 The place I love

 

Wellington has atmosphere. It just comes at you at 120km/h!

It snowed in Auckland.

I'll be happy if it snows in Taupo when I'm there, but it hasn't done that in yonks. 

Not the coldest I've experienced, but an extreme weather experience - In 1992 my girlfriend got a job in Fairview, AB, Canada.

I quit working in central Qld (where it was in the 40's) in November, flew over and joined her in Canada with winter coming on, and it getting.. cold..
A guy I was purchasing a sled from asked If I'd volunteer to help at an upcoming race.. the "Numb Bum 24 Hour Motorcycles on Ice Marathon"

Race day it was in the low -30's.. cold enough for this heat acclimatized kiwi.
They'd cleared a track in the snow on a frozen lake, the idea was for a team to survive riding around it for 24 hours - and win by beating the other surviving teams.
It was quite the event, people came from all over, including a few famous folks (Evil Knievel was a track marshal)

I was in a 'rescue crew' & had been donated a (liquid cooled) quad bike to ride & some excellent cold weather gear. We had a large propane heated team tent to warm up in.
The quad was cold-proofed by taping cardboard over the radiator, but after dark as it dropped to near -50C, it's radiator still froze, and it - counter intuitively - overheated, meaning it wasn't much use as a rescue machine.

The track at night was completely shrouded in exhaust ice fog - a crazy medley of howling engines and shaking headlights illuminating rooster-tails of ice. And it was awesomely cold.
To change team members a bike'd pull into the pits - the previous rider would basically fall off in a frozen lump, and a new one - bundled up in Arctic gear - take his place and ride off into the darkness. Those guys were tough..

 I've still got the official 'Super-cool Super-fool' T shirt somewhere.

psychrn: Would you believe my hottest was in NZ. Yes 42 C during a heatwave in Chch early 70, s I think. School sent everyone home.

If that happened now you can be sure that the media would claim that the world is ending.

MadEngineer: Gone are the days of picking up slabs of ice that formed on the tops of the previous nights puddles as one walks to school. I don’t think kids today even wear gloves like we had to.

The ice has got a bit thin in Lower Hutt but it's still turns up each year on the valley floor.

Sometimes in Auckland my windscreen has frost on it in the morning. And then I have to clear it off.