The Country 02/12/25: Phil Duncan talks to Hamish McKay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weather on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer. Okay, we're joined by Phil Daggan from
where the watch film. We just had apty farmer being
prepped on here Northern Mana. We're too stunning day in
this part of the country. Is that sort of happening elsewhere?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, good Hamish, we've got some large areas of dry
but we've also got some big downpours that are developing
and really you know, expect the unexpected a bit over
the next couple of days as we've got this very
large low pressure zone that's forming and about to cross
the country. It crosses the North Island tomorrow night, exits

(00:41):
by just after midnight, so it's moving pretty quickly, but
it's quite a large system, so it's going to affect
both islands and bring in the chants of these very
heavy downpours, especially around the North Island, but even parts
of Canterbury have had them this morning as well.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, so that's a well compared to what's happening in
the Mighty Metal with two that's a bit of a
surprise anywhere. That's sort of you know, I know, there
was those sort of Hawks, Southern Hawks by Northern wire Rappa.
With those one or two dry parts, Is there any
anywhere still of concern that's needing that moisture?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, absolutely, the eastern side of the lower North Island.
There's also a western part of the North Island between
Taranaki and about Waititomo which is dryer than it should be,
and we've got a bit of dry creeping into the
eastern side of the South Island as well. This large
low coming in. One of the great things about it
is it's likely to produce some decent rain in those

(01:33):
dry areas, so it's a bit of a balancing act
coming through hopefully, I don't want to get ahead of myself,
but it produces these big downpours that can break your
local forecast as far as rainfall is concerned, So it
can produce very heavy rain. But on top of that,
it produces a good southerly rain event after it as
it moves out of the North Island. For that dry

(01:54):
central eastern part of New Zealand does come with some
strong window and like I say, these possible of their
thunderstorms in the mix as well. There. God.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it is a veritable feast of possibility. So December
into January sort of how are we looking.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, we've got Larnina officially with us now. The weather
pattern has been around for a couple of months, but
now it's officially met that threshold. And now the next
couple of weeks, I think we're going to see a
lot more energy up in the tropics, tropical lows, potentially
tropical cyclones. Some of those are already showing up in
long range maps which you can't lock in, but you're

(02:31):
seeing that showing up. But at the same time, the
weather pattern around the southern chemisphere, around the Southern Ocean
much stormier than usual. Australia getting snow storms, can you
believe it, off and on every week at the moment
in the mountains they had fifteen centimeters around Threatbow the
other day, so it's very stormy in the southern Ocean.
So I think what we're going to see is Larnina

(02:51):
being noticed definitely at the top of the country and
the sort of ongoing spring carrying on at the very
south of the country. And if you're in the middle,
you get a bit of everything coming at.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You right phill dark and weather watch before you go.
We've been discut. One of the topics of discussion today
has been recipes for lamb. You meet NFL, you strike
me as well, and I could be wrong. Yeah, what
would you do with your lamb? How do you like
your lamb done?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I love like my mum makes the best roast lamb
with the rosemary, fresh rosemary all over it. That's to
this day my favorite.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, and quite simple. Low, just all about the temperature
and the length of time cooked.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I make rack of lamb using an air fryer. Imagine
that well, and it works really well. And I just
cover it in fresh rosemary. That's my only thing. And
pepper maybe as well.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, fantastic, Phil, thank you very much. It is fill
dark and there from where the watch