THE BIG REVIEW: Way too much sun

Dunedin residents were among those who awoke to find sweltering temperatures being forecast by the MetService today after a system error on their website and app. At 3.53am it was recorded that the temperature in Dunedin was 118degC and doubled as the expected high for the day. The temperature also displayed on the Otago Daily Times Online, a result of the MetService error. Around 7am, MetService tweeted that the temperatures were displaying an extra first digit and that they should be fixed. Other centres had similarly high temperatures forecast, with Blenheim being recorded at 119degC, Paraparaumu (just north of Wellington) at 218degC, and Auckland at 221degC. The hottest official temperature recorded on Earth's surface was 56.7degC, in Death Valley, California in 1913, so there is no way that temperatures of 118 degrees would be realistic.