As hundreds of bushfires continue to burn in Australia, smoke has made its way here to New Zealand.
Parts of Otago woke up this morning to a hazy New Year's Day.
A MetService webcam captured a hazy sunrise over Wanaka this morning, while other footage sent to 1 NEWS shows haze sitting over Queenstown and Cromwell.
One picture taken at 9.30 this morning shows a hazy view of Queenstown from Rob and Lynley Henderson's home.
There was an eerie start to the New Year for people Queenstown and Dunedin. (Source: Other)
The couple told 1 NEWS they were "almost total closed in with smoke".
MetService has confirmed the cause of the haze is due to smoke from the Australian bushfires being carried across the Tasman.
They said the smoke had been brought over by an unbroken northwest flow.
1 NEWS weather presenter Dan Corbett said the smoke would move up the South Island as a front crossed the Tasman.
"The front is going to die, it's not really going to make its way north so unfortunately we will still have some of that haze floating about," he said.
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