The Country 11/05/26: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Weather on the country with Fiji, where happiness comes naturally.
It is six away from one. Let's wrap first show
of the week Monday, back on the Tools. Phil Duncan
from weather Watch, one of the countries leading weather men.
I think I've got the two leading weather men on
the show during the week, Chris Brandolino and Phil. I

(00:23):
won't put your head to head, but Phil, I was
looking at the old weather forecast because we've got a
wee bit cold here in Dunedin yesterday, nothing unexpected, but
there's a big high coming, especially for the South Island,
so we could be in for maybe a fine and
perhaps frosty week, could we.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, we do expect some frost around tonight again and
tomorrow night in some inland areas, coastal places like Dunedin,
probably not so much. Too much cloud, bit of wind
coming through tomorrow with the southerly ahead of the big high.
But the temperatures are really down in the South Island
this week. They're more like this time of the year,

(01:01):
in fact, maybe below this time of the year, more
wintry sort of set up, and the North Island is
on the edge of the high pressure and so that
means the southeasterly wind is going to kick in or
south to southeast we went, and that means that if
you live along the east coast of the North Island,
so wide it up the Hawks Bay getsman Tide Artery
and then up towards Corinandal Peninsula, Northland, those areas are

(01:23):
likely to be a bit cloudy this week, with showers
coming through pretty much all week, so it's not going
to be overly flash But the flip side is if
you're on the western side of the hills and ranges
in the North Island, it should be very sunny once
we get to the middle of the week, and so
you know inland areas and northern areas of the South Island, Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury,

(01:43):
all those places should end up with quite a nice
week on the way once that high kind of rolls in.
And then when the high actually does come in, it'll
bring with it some fog, so we'll get foggy patches
developing later this week and this weekend. So it's pretty
dry weather for most places, but the eastern side of
the North Island, Southland, maybe coastal Otago a little bit

(02:05):
will be cloudier to begin with, and so that those
shewers will linger on in the eastern North Island, perhaps
right through till Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I fell got about thirty seconds left. Is there anywhere
left in the country that's still a bit dry? Because
I know that some parts of the North Island were
still looking out for rain. I know that Canterbury was
starting to get quite dry for this time of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know, the North Island's actually in pretty good shape.
There may be some locations that could do with a
little bit more rain in the west, but not a lot.
You know, it's going to be I think balancing out
this week for a number of places. But I do
think Canterbury. Parts of Canterbury are drying out of webits,
and obviously a ken day forecast with dry weather will
only make that dry. But I think going into winter

(02:46):
we're in a pretty good set up at the moment
for most regions.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it will get wet, I promise you. There we go.
Phil Duncan from weather Watch wrapping the country for today,