The Country 16/05/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

NIWA’s principal scientist with a weather update for the week and beyond.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country with Chris Breandolino from newe Way. A
bit early for his winter forecast, but a bit of
a cold change coming at Chris.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Till after the weekend, Jamie. There will be a warm
kind of wet field to the weekend. That'll start for
the South Island, so west of the South Island Tomorrow
on Saturday, Fiordland, even interior Otago gets a good drop
of rain, certainly west coast of the South Island from
Tasman right the way through to Fiordland. That'll be Saturday
and Saturday night, and that front moves north and that'll

(00:29):
bring rain to the North Island, but not until late
on Sunday, so places like Tedanaki with the soils are
still dry and why cocktail, you'll get some much needed
rainfall and that'll move north and should exit the country
by Monday morning. But in advance of that, Jamie, it
is going to be warm. Unusually warm temperatures are likely
for Tomorrow on Saturday for the entire South Island as

(00:52):
northwest winds bring some pretty warm air from the North
and we'll find that warm air continuing into Sunday for
the North Island. But meanwhile the South Island as much
cooler for the day on Sunday as cooler air filters
in from the south and west. And then as we
look farther afield, it looks like we'll find yeah, some
cooler temperatures for next week across much of the country,

(01:13):
but not significantly cooler. This is not like a proper
winter spell. And then we could see more warmth and
more rain. We'll have to watch this for the end
of May and early June could be an unsettled warmth period.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
There we got Chris Brendelaya excellent as always,