The Country 05/09/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

 Our Friday weather guy from Earth Sciences NZ shares his spring outlook.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
My god, there were some terrible songs in nineteen ninety four,
the song no No, you haven't introduced you yet.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You can't say you did introduce me.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
No I didn't. I said there were some terrible songs
in ninety ninety four, and this is right up there.
I swear who sang this one? By the way, I
swear by all for one, one of those buck Dull
boy bands nineteen ninety four. I know that you were
at college in the States and you told us during
the ad break, you and Haled. So we'll leave that converasation.

(00:32):
You did, didn't you?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Listen? Man? What's fuck? We a baby?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay? Chris Brendolino from Earth Sciences, New Zell And to
the wet Blanket who texted and thought I'd tune to
a farming channel, not a rugby channel. Look, let me
indulge myself for once. I mean some occasionally text you've
got to put together a show that you enjoy. I
know that I make a living out of hopefully the
listeners enjoying it, but occasionally you do one for yourself,

(00:59):
and that's today. I'm sorry of just indulging myself. Chris,
are you going to do away? Of the forecast just
to please yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, no, I do weather forecast to please the people.
And by pleasing the people, I do that so they
are prepared and aware. Look, if I give people a
forecast they wanted all the time, it'd be sunny and
twenty four degrees. And you know we can't have that
every day. That's not a good thing. You know we
need some rain every now and again.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Give us your spring forecast, because I know it. Earth
science is new zealing to take a more serious approach
to this. You haven't done a spring outlook.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We have. Look, we'll do the spring outlook. Then I
think you're keen on hearing for some site specific forecast
this weekend, So the spring outlook. Look, let's remind people,
and no farmers know this, but for people who maybe
need a gentle reminder, spring is one or more the
most changeable seasons. We're pivoting from winter to summer, and
in that process, it's the teenager of seasons. I'd like

(01:53):
to say, Jamie, lots of highs and lows, a lot
of Mother Nature's mood swings, and we're going to see
that this exce couple weeks. Look, we're gonna see more
westerlies to start spring, so September will feature more westerlies
than we have seen during the winter season. However, that's
not going to last. As we go through the spring
season October November, we'll see less westerly So they're not

(02:15):
gonna be a theme for all of spring, just say
the first three weeks month thereabouts. But when those west
winds come rain west of the South Ould is gonna
be quite wet over the next few weeks, and we
will see some active weather across the country over the
next couple weeks, a lot of roller coaster days where
it feels quite mild today, lower twenties in christ Church
in Kakota. We're gonna see cooler temperatures the next couple days,

(02:37):
then we'll warm up again. So this roller coaster active
weather pattern for the next few weeks. I think overall,
for the next three months, if there's going to be
dry conditions, it's likely to be over the South Island
apart from the top of the South Island. I know
that sounds kind of weird because we're getting a bunch
of rain over the next few weeks, but I think
that faucet slowly closes by the time we emerge into October,

(02:59):
and probably a warm lean so average to above average temperatures. Look,
I think as we get toward late September into October,
we're going to see high pressure establish itself over the
South Island and near the country, and that's gonna keep
things settled and dry and warm where that high sets
up Jimmie putting a bowl around the spring outlook here,
Where about high sets up longer term as we go

(03:21):
into November and in the summer, that is really going
to be the key. I can't stress to this enough.
At this anti cyclone or high is over the South
Island or just southeast, we'll have an opening for some
big rain events for the top of the country, in
the eastern part of the country. But I thought high
is a little bit farther north and west, then that
dryness expands farther north and west as well. So that's

(03:41):
something we'll have to watch as we move through