The Country 13/10/25: Phil Duncan talks to Hamish McKay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, can you see the rain? Apparently you can't miss
it around many parts of the country. Some will be
welcome here, some won't be. Phil Dunken from weather watch
stock got on and zed joins us. Now get I
phelt wit were you.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And the good it's cloudy up here and Drisley in
Auckland where I am today.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, yeah, right here is but a thunder happening around
with the old thunderclap happening. What's the story there around
the country too.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, there's been a lot of thunderstorm activity in Australia.
And for those who watched Battists yesterday, I mean what
a spectacular race that was. The weather just made that
race incredible. So that weather has actually moved through and
out to the Tasman Sea and it's all associated with
this westerly flow. So we've got thunderstorms on the top
half of the West Coast and some of those thunderstorms

(00:43):
could move into the western side of the North Island.
We've got rain and showers all moving in. So it's
going to be with us for kind of today and
tonight and tomorrow and tony unsettled forecast. You know, we
really are in a classic unsettled spring this year and
no end in sight. Unfortunate lead to the westerly flow,
which some people are getting a bit tired of.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Now Yeah, okay, in in sight, righty. So well have
you have you got any good.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
News what we do? Yeah, it's not all bad news.
There could be somewhere whether that spells over into the
dry east and so you know, we are a little
bit concerned about Hawk's Bay, and while most of the
rain is going to fall on the western side of
the Ranges, there could still be some good amounts falling
at the tops and spelling over, so's it's good news there.

(01:28):
The other bit of good news is we do have
some high pressure passing to the north of the country
this week and that will bring dry and more settled weather,
not as windy. And the third bit of good news
is even though we are getting these windy westerlies at times,
the intensity of them is actually dropping a wee bit
from previous weeks. So there's some good news in there.
But yeah, the West is going to be wet over

(01:49):
the coming week and the East is going to be dryest,
especially the South Islands East and Southern Wide and Upper Wellington.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, so does that concern for the dry Does that
goes through the hawks By Taru down into the water Rapper.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah it does. And look, there is some good rain
coming over or not good you know, hopefully some good rain,
but there's it's not completely dry. So that's a positive
twist on you know, the forecast a few weeks ago
where we thought very little would be coming over. So
we're a little bit optimistic there. But it's a bit
dryer than it should be at the moment. And the
westerly winds are not really a good friend from the

(02:24):
east coast when it's try really, so we're just looking
for that break in it. You know. They talk about
l'arninia is a positive thing. Hopefully we can get something
from that. But you know, for now, even if Lamina forms,
there is this westerly flowing place, so we won't feel
it yet. We need the high pressure zones north of
us to break apart.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I have no promise, being a lot of my
working week away from Auckland or down in the Middle
Two primarily these days fell and I'm quite happy if
we can let some go over the Tarus and the
rue Haines end of the hawks By and the wire
Rapper gratefully pass it on.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, one hundred percent. We could do with a reversal
of the weather flow.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Of the moment to balance the absolutely there we go.
That is Phil Duncan where I watch dot co, dot
NZ here on the country