Wellington is known as the Windy City. The prevailing wind is from the northwest but the strongest winds are southerly. The wind speed and direction can be seen by the flag being flown from the Beehive. A large flag is flown only on calm days, a small flag is flown when windy days are expected.
The temperature in Wellington rarely drops below 0�C (32�F), even on a cold winter's night, while daytime winter temperatures are rarely lower than 8�C (46�F). During summer, the daytime maximum temperature rarely gets above 25�C (77�F). Away from the seaside, in inland valleys, frosts of up to -10�C (14�F) have been recorded and snow has been known to fall and settle on the nearby mountain ranges for a few days after particularly nasty southerly storms.
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