The Country 09/09/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s weather man on a Tuesday looks at the most unsettled month of them all - September. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Phil Duncan, Monday's resident. Weare they're expert on a Tuesday.
I'm all over the shop today. I felt she's a
bit chilly out there. But September is, you know, typically
a bit of an unsettled month.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is the biggest complaint I get in spring from
New Islanders is saying so much for spring is if
like once September arrives, it's summer. So you know, winter
is slowly fading away, hints of summer slowly coming in
and that's giving us some real variety in the weather,
not only at the moment but in the week or
two ahead.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
What can we expect in the week or two ahead, Phil,
Because it's a very important time of the year obviously
for sheep farmers with lambing, but the arable farmers will
be talking to Hamishma tomorrow. They're trying to get the
soil conditions right to get the crops into the ground,
and of course the dairy farmers they're getting through carving,
but they start to look at mating and getting the
cows and good nick for that.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's right, multiple things going on September October very critical
months in the horticulture. Agriculture sector so we're monitoring a
few The most of the energy at the moment in
our weather is coming out of Australia. They're having a
thunderstorm outbreak that goes from Darwin to Sydney at the moment.
I mean, that's put a few New Zealands in there
that is coming our way. So we've got a lot

(01:12):
of energy out of the Tasman Sea with thunderstorms coming
through over the next couple of days, mostly westerly driven
and surges of gale force winds, and on top of
all of that, frosty weather in the mix as well.
The good news about the frosts is they are where
they should be. They're in the South Island mostly through
the interior and the mountains, not so much going into

(01:33):
the lower down coastal areas in the top of the
South Island and also around the North Island. So there's
some good news. But the ups and downs and temperatures,
we've got a lot more of that coming up over
the next couple of weeks as we deal with these
Ossie thunderstorms plus some really large high pressure zone. So
it's not all bad news.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, there is talk from some farmers on the East
coast of both islands that it's not unusual either. At
the storm of the they're starting to look for a
look over their shoulder for a butter rain.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I was talking to Malcrowe this morning. She lives in
Hawks Bay. She works for Farmers Weekly, and the conversation
we had this morning was exactly about what you just
raised that Hawk's Bay, particularly between Nelson and going inland
towards Munuwa Tu, those areas have been in a rain
shadow pretty much all year and they're going into spring
drive and average so these westeries are not favorable for

(02:22):
that area. It may dry out more before we get
some kind of rain relief, but I do think that's
one area to highlight going into the next few months
to keep very close eye on due to the rain
shadow that I've been in in the South Island not
as bad. Canterbury had a lot of rain in the
start of winter and during winter, so balancing at going
on for Canterbury more so than maybe it is for

(02:42):
Hawk's Bay.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Bill Duncan, thanks for your time, mate,