The Country 12/08/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Phil Duncan's gonna wrap it, phelp. It's pretty calm and
settled this week, but we've got a bit of a pole,
a blast and a change coming Monde. It is August.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, good day, Jamie. We've got high pressure over us
at the moment, bringing in some wet weather for Canterbury
today and a wet cold weekend for many sort of
central parts of New Zealand like Wellington and Canterbury, Northern Canterbury.
So this week high pressure rolls in, frosty weather spreads everywhere,
or at least up towards Auckland and Northland. Then this
weekend we get a bit of a northerly change and

(00:30):
that blows away the Polary afloats for a couple of days.
But next week Monday, low pressure comes in from the
Tasman Sea and by Tuesday it looks as though we've
got a snow event coming into the South Island. At
this stage it's still a changeable forecast, but we are
predicting snow down to about two hundred meters maybe one
hundred meters in Otago, Southland and Canterbury South Canterbury early

(00:51):
next week run Tuesday. This time next week.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
And not everyone will be disappointed with that forecast in
terms of the areas that have had too much rain.
And I'm particularly thinking of our friends in the Tasman
Nelson region. What's happening there.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's really good drying out phase over the last couple
of weeks. There is a chance that as that low
comes in from the Tasman next Monday, that there might
be some rain that comes into Tasman and Nelson. At
this stage it doesn't look like rain morning criteria, but
you have a no normally wind low pressure worth monitoring.
But at this stage it's more about the cold change

(01:24):
coming in. Canterbury in the mountains may have snow for
much of next week, not talking about low laying farming areas,
but up in the mountains themselves. I factcause you're an
indicator of sort of moisture and cold airflows going through
next week. But another big high is on the way,
so it's not all bad news.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, well we'll take that. Phil. Thank you very much
for your time to appreciate your contribution, albeit one day late,
and that was my fault, not yours.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, it's all good, beautiful weather this week.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I got my feet up, good on you, There we go.
Phil Duncan from weather Watch