The Country 14/03/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

Where is the rain? We ask NIWA's weather guy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Chris Brandelina, I'm not going to shoot the messenger.
If you can't. They love on me some rain, but
if you got some rain.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
For me, yeah, we do. Chiefly there'll be a bit
of rain, I guess tonight tomorrow morning force areas in
southeast of Tidle, your neck of the woods, parts of Southland.
I think a much bigger dose of rain comes probably
Monday Tuesday, for the west of the South Island, where
it is quite dry. I mean, obviously the North Island

(00:26):
is where the driest conditions are, but the hydrocatchments they're
quite low, Jamie, and that's how we generate a lot
of electricity. So that's an area that could use the rain.
And that rain does move into places like Tedanaki and
the Wakatou and the western and central North Island. Probably Tuesday.
It won't be nearly enough, but it may take the
edge off just to touch. I should mention that rain
will be a company by some really strong wind We

(00:48):
are going to see some very strong winds to work
away through very late this week, but especially early next week.
There'll be northwest winds at first, so very warm temperatures.
You'll be in the mid twenties. It looks like Jammie
on Monday before dropping ten degrees on Tuesday, down and dunners.
But there could be some low let's say near or
above thirty degrees for eastern Canterbury and eastern portions of

(01:10):
the North Island late this weekend, especially early Monday and
or Tuesday of next week, as those northwest winds crank
and then we go southwest and brief period of cool temperatures.
But I think warm weather Jamie will be the theme
for the next For the rest of the month, it
will be the odd cool day or two, but certainly
a warm lean and in terms of rainfall, that's the
big question. Later this month, we still think a much

(01:33):
better chance for rain than the places that need it,
but we need more in the way of this, not
just a one off, We need several instances.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
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