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Linda - I don't know what figures you saw about New Zealand's temperatures in the winter, but figures can lie - and how.
I have friends who live three and a half hours away from me and it is always bitterly cold and desolute there in the winters and snows a lot. they live close to the main mountain chain in the North Island. Their Corgis love the snow - and see plenty of it.
Then there is the southern part of the South Island - cold winters, cold winds and lots of snowing. Temperatures do not take into account the wind chill factor. I'm in a slightly more sheltered part of the Wellington region, but Wellington and some other parts close by, suffer from strong winds and in the winter these are very chilling having come directly from the South Pole.
THis winter just gone, has been one of the coldest and wettest on record everywhere in NZ - stark contrast to the Northern hemisphere where many places had heat waves during their summers.
None of this is to say, you are not most welcome to come here and get away from your harsh winters.
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