Crown Range

It doesn't fit because good radio should be contextual or relevant to the moment.

So, you know, if I am listening, if I think I'm going to listen to the morning show at six o'clock at night, They're talking about the Crown Range, you know, in our context, talking about the Crown Range being closed because it's snowing or, you know, it's all old news.

So it's not relevant.

So that sort of thing doesn't happen.

If you've got breaking snowfall news, let us know.

And also the Crown Range, that should have started snowing there from 8 p.m. tonight.

That's the situation.

There you go, 0800 80 1080.

That's right.

Snowing on the Lewis range.

Lewis past day on the Crown range.

It's white chocolate day.

But anyway, in rural news, State Highway 87 between Middlemarch and Outram in Otago was closed by snow overnight, while flooding shut State Highway 96 at Oriti Plains in Southland, according to the NZ Transport Agency.

This morning, Linda's Pass recorded minus 1.9 degrees, while the Crown Range got down to 2.3 and Tekapo minus 0.9, which is really cold for this time of year, but we usually get a blast of snow, don't we, Jamie?

Yeah, but we've had too much of a blast and we're going to go down to Southland before the end of the hour and catch up with the farmer down there at the Coalface, but not before we do sports news.

Sport on the Country with AFCO.

A heavy snow watch is in force for the Lower South Island from this afternoon covering central Otago, Queenstown Lakes District and the Mackenzie Basin.

MetService says drivers should take extra care on the Crown Range, Milford Road this afternoon and the Lindis Pass from this evening.

There's also a heavy rain watch in place for Buller District and ranges of Westland.

A conservation group says trapping in Kahirangi National Park has been so successful they've caught just one rat.

I speak with some experience.

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