The Country 12/09/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

Our Earth Sciences NZ Weather Guy offers his thoughts on 9/11, an All Blacks and Warriors forecast, and a cold start to spring.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's kick it off with Chris Brandolina from Newa. What's
your on eleven story?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Chris Ooh wow, Yeah, I was in my mid twenties
and upstate New York and I remember it well. It
was Yeah, it was something you just never forget where
you were when it happened, and I remember, and I was,
you know, I lived three hundred miles or three hundred

(00:26):
and fifty miles from New York City where it happened.
But even for several years after, whenever I would hear
a low flying aircraft, it would just uh, it would
just you know, it would trigger me. It would just
freak me out. Quick story. It was a guy by
the name of Mike Reese. He's a writer, he used
to be a writer. I'm not sure if he's still
writing for the Simpsons, right. So my wife was in
grad school earning her masters, and you know, as a

(00:48):
grad student, she you know, she was teaching, so you know,
you have an adult, but she got cheaper tickets for events.
So this guy, Mike Reese from the Simpsons, he was speaking,
had a speaking engagement. So I loved the Simpsons, so
she and I went to hear his remarks and he
tells this story about nine eleven, and the story tells

(01:08):
he was given some dur and all the cartoons that
Fox had such as King of the Hill if you
remember back in the late nineties, and then there was
Family Guy. So he tells his story and how Seth MacFarland,
the creator of Family Guy, was basically missed his flight
and he's in the lobby at the airport in I

(01:31):
think in Boston, and he's yelling at his manager why
did it get me on? Why am I not on
that plane? And he's watching the television in the plane
he was meant to be on I think was a
second plane that crashed into the twin towers. And Mike
Reese was always saying like God must have loved Family
Guy because the fact that he was late, he had

(01:51):
a big night partying. I think miss overslept, missed his
plane and as a consequence of that, he lived. He
did not, he didn't, you know, he didn't get on
that plane. And he was the creator Family Guy. So
there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's not about nine to eleven story. Let's get onto
the weather now. My perception I'm based on Dunaden. I've
got farming interests down on Southland. It's pretty cold down
there at the moment. Nothing nothing unusual in September. But
you're telling me for a lot of the country we're
doing okay. In fact, we may be yeahmer than average.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Some places in the eastern part of the eastern part
of the South Island, eastern and parts of the North
Island have a warm link. But to your point, you're
you're on the right track. I did look at the
numbers and look, I would say a lot of the
countries on the cool side of average. So again it
doesn't have to be spot on to be average. Have

(02:42):
to agree either side right, have to agree warm, have
to gree cool. If it's within there, we say good
enough near average, And much of the country is on
like point three point four point five on the negative side,
so on the cool side of average. But there are
some areas, Jamie. It's to your point where on the
western side of the South Island it's been eight chili
so far this spring. That's going to come to an end.

(03:03):
Looking at the guide ence, look, we're gonna have a
cool chili weekend, so okay, we got that. But once
we get through this weekend, I think much of next
week is gonna have a decidedly warm lean, maybe a
bit of a cool down Thursday Friday, but that'll just
be for a half day, maybe a day, and then
another puff of warm air comes from Aussie for the weekend,
at least to start next weekend. So I think over

(03:25):
the next we'll call it seven to eight days, I
would say the vast majority of the next seven to
eight days are going to have a warm lean from Monday.
From Monday for the country, So the next couple of
days gonna be windy. We got a big we'll get
some rugby. This weekend gonna be windy and Wellington shocker
and kind of cool. But generally speaking, I don't think

(03:46):
we're gonna see lots in the way of cold temperatures.
Once you get past this weekend, it'll be a warm lean.
There'll be a lot of wind, that's for sure. So
we're living up to the spring reputation. Then, if you will, rightly.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
As you said, no surprise wind and Wellington. We're expecting
that the warriors, the wires applying in Auckland, are they
gonna have to play with weather forty to beat the panthers. No.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Look, I think generally speaking, this uh, for the weekend.
There will be some showers tomorrow, I think tomorrow evening. Yeah,
there could be Yeah, look, there could be some showers.
I would expect at least a few showers. I'm not
sure if it will define the game in terms of
whether we will define the game in terms of weather.
Tomorrow for Auckland anyway, will be a bit of a
healthy breeze and if it's gonna rain will be early.

(04:29):
That's the start of the of the of the test, Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Chris Braindolino from Earth Sciences in New Zealand