The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has called it one of the worst New Zealand summers on record. Cloudy and windy in the capital Wellington, and unusually cold in the south island, with 50cm of snow falling in January. Weather patterns are to blame. Climate change is to blame. It doesn’t matter – she didn’t show.

New Zealand hit by 'weather bomb' bringing summer snow and flooding
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There were two severe weather bombs, cutting off west coast farming towns and peppering Dunedin streets with handfuls of hail. From my cottage, I stared out at the manic weather hurling itself against my sash windows, making them shake and squeal. Running out of wood, I burnt the rotten fence palings under my house, and then used all my back-issues of the Guardian Weekly for kindling.
My new summer dress, silky and slippery, stayed unworn, and the fresh bottle of gin, which needs laughter and sticky evenings, remained unopened

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/01/new-zealands-lost-summer-how-will-we-make-it-through-the-winter-gloom