The Country 04/06/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Winter’s here this week, and it’s Fieldays next week. We look out a week for a Waikato forecast with WeatherWatch.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A wrapping the country on a Wednesday. We normally chat
to this bloke on a Monday, but it was Charlie's
birthday so we got them today. Phil Duncan, is there
a bit of weather happening in Auckland. I know there's
a bit of weather happening all around the country, but
it is June, it is winter. What do we expect?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good afternoon. Yeah, We've got some decent rain moving down
across the country. It's coming in from a big low
in the Tasman Sea and a large high out over
the east departing away from us, so we have a
northerly windflow today, so the rainfall is going to be
a little bit subtropical, which means it can be patchy
and drizzly one moment and then absolutely pouring down the next.
And this is affecting the top half of the North

(00:39):
Island and the northwest corner of the South Island, and
there may be other areas like Canterbury as well, all
caught up in it. Because as that normally moves away
over tomorrow, in comes the giant wintry southerly and the
whole country will feel it by Saturday. The whole of
New Zealand is going to have a temperature drop some
by ten degrees or more, even the top of the

(01:00):
country several degrees down.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are you game enough to go out seven days to
day one of field Day's fill? Do you do that?
At weather watch?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I love to do that. So next week there is
another big low, our third one in a row, coming
out of the Tasman Sea. So we're in a new
pattern now where it goes high pressure low pressure, high
pressure low pressure, and so next week there's another low.
The latest map today suggests that Wednesday might be a
bit wet, and then Thursday breaks the showers and Friday

(01:28):
Saturday has showers. Evening normally wins double digit overnight lows,
so it's not one of those frosty, foggy field days.
It looks like it might be a warmer, wetter version.
But we'll be able to fine tune that a bit
more by Friday of this week to see just how
much that low is going to accept the North Island.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And bringing the gun boots for the car parks. Maybe,
but that's good news for people who are flying directly
into Hamilton because it's always it's always a bit dicey
at that time of the year, Phil, they love fog
and Hamilton in June.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We built on the Rural Weather dot co dot MZ website.
We've got a fog forecaster and I built that just
for field days because of the fog at the airport there. Hey,
have you ever done the helicopter in. That's something I
would love to do as the helicopter in then avoid
that car park.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I know, I haven't. I've done the jet boat
in which was good, but Cole, but really good. You're
really good. Hey are you are you going to field
days yourself? Weather watch?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't. I don't think I am this year and
a little disappointed because I was quite keen to. But
I've got a lot going on and I'm still recovering
a bit from my injury. But if I can make it,
I would love to come down at the end of
each week. I'll see how I going.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
All right, Phil duncan thank you very much for your time.
We'll catch you back again on Monday's show and you
can report about the onset of winter Sharkara.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Forward to it.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, the TV channels will be running Sharkarra news stories. Yes,
guess what it's snowing. It is winter that is Phil
Duncan