The Country 02/05/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

NIWA weather guy on the wind in Wellington and the rain in Canterbury. And a duck hunting forecast.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get straight into it. Chris Brandolino and you guys
or not. The media Chris sometimes get a bit of
stick for over sensationalizing the weather. But the weather we've
had in the past few days has been sensational unless
you was stuck in it.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, it was something else. I mean, starting off in
Canterbury and Bank's Peninsula, well over one hundred millimeters of
rain christ Church over a couple of day period, as
well as Acaroa and Bank's Peninsula. I think I didn't
look at the final number, but it was north to
two fifty and approaching three hundred millimeters, so somewhere in

(00:39):
that range for the event, so over a couple of days.
And then the wind as you say in Wellington, so
it was it was certainly active. Whether things are settling down,
but we are still dealing with some leftover showers of rain,
even some thunderstorms in the Upper North Island, places like
the Waikato, places like the Auckland region and Northland region
still seeing some shower and still some heavy rain right now.

(01:02):
Minds you over toward the wider rapid Wellington, Masterton and
that region. Lower North Island still seeing the wind in
the rain though things are easy.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, okay, well, I guess we can kick any drought
or dry spell to touch well and truly now Chris as.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, it's funny you say that we literally Jammie, I'm
going to give you an exclusive here. We just lisued
our long range outlook updated long range outlook for May
June July as collective, and we are expecting above normal
rain for the north of the North Island for a
three month Period's Wakata, Northland, Auckland Bay have plenty regions,
but you say dryness and one area that we think

(01:40):
dryness may occur, So we're saying normal or below normal.
So somewhere in that spectrum is the west of the
North Island and the west of the South Island and
as we know, Teedanaki Manawatu still dealing with the dryness look,
even if our because of the potential for reduction of
rainfall for the next three months, that ground water recharge
may be slow. So while dryness and drought may be

(02:02):
gone or eventually will be gone, the effects of dryness
and drought do persist. So I do want to acknowledge
that it is going to be a warmer than average
three month period. Yes, to be chili spells, including this weekend.
We'll find some cool and eventually settled weather coming in.
There'll be some showers tomorrow. And you want to talk
about duck hunting, So if I got it ray as
a city slicker, we want some cloud and some showers

(02:23):
and kind of gloomy weather for duck hunting. Is that right?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well what unless you're a duck, of course, Chris. But yeah,
you know, cloudy, overcast weather, a bit of rain, especially
a bit of wind that keeps them a bit lower.
You don't want to find clear day. But as the South,
I mean, I'm in Queenstown today doing the show, Chris,
and I can tell you it's an absolutely stunning autumn
day here. It would be a day for the days.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. Well, it's going to be another good one tomorrow
in Queens Sound. But if you venture a little farther south,
or to Saint Gore, or maybe in for Cargo or
other parts of Fjordland, there will be more cloud probably
some showers around as well. And in terms of the
wind in that region there will be a bit of
a breeze. I won't call it windy, but certainly a good,
healthy stiff breeze will be in that area. Over toward

(03:09):
eastern Otago as well, there'll be some gust of your breezes.
I think we'll have to watch later next week, Jammie.
After some settled weather next early next week. Much of
the start of next week Monday, Tuesday Wednesday largely settled,
I would describe it as But as we approach Thursday
and Friday, say the ninth and the tenth of the week,
so next week this time, we have to watch for

(03:30):
another visitor from the North, and that's what we're gonna
have to watch for the next three months, the North,
because that'll be a source of these rain bearing systems
that'll come down and could provide us with some heavy
rain events when they do so. An area is most
susceptible to that will be the Upper North Island and
to a lesser extent, perhaps the eastern part of both islands.
So we'll have to keep our eyes on that as

(03:50):
we work away through the next three months.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Good on you, Chris Brandley and I keep up the
good work. At maywe