The Country 17/11/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday's resident weather expert.

 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just having a quick look at the text machine, Fell Duncan, Forthworth.
Here's one that came in on Friday when we were
broadcasting from a beautifully sunny and fine and warm christ
Church Day for the Canterbury Amp show. What a successful
day People's Day was from Cedric who said this is
in reference to the Prime minister who kicked off the show.

(00:23):
Luxon is lying there is no CGT capital gains tax
on holiday homes. They are exempt. Please correct this, says Cedric. Well, Cedric,
last time I had a look, the holiday home is
not exempt from a capital gains tax. Your own home is,
but not your holiday home. If you sell the batch,
I think you've got to play CGT on it. Correct

(00:46):
me if I'm wrong. On five double nine, Fell Duncan.
What's your understanding of the capital gains tax because you're
a property making Nate, I was thin.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
She's just reading the story on the Herald about that.
Just trying to get my head out it more. I
don't understand enough about it yet, but I think there's
probably going to be more conversation about this in the
months ahead to figure it out. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
The interesting thing is with Chippy in this capital gains tax.
I'm not in favor of myself, but I think we
do at some stage need to broaden the tax space.
We're going to go broke as a nation. The other
thing we should be doing is raising the age of
eligibility for national souper. That would solve some of our problems.
But as long as Winston's breathing, that's never going to happen.

(01:28):
But when you check the surveys or the polls, people
aren't against it. I guess anything to get the rich
pricks a fell talk to me about the weather extremes
christ Church case in point, Thursday miserably cold and wet,
Friday stunningly warm, Saturday hail at Rickett and Sunday freezing
at the cricket.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It sounds like November and Canterbury to me. You know,
the Southern Elks really make the South Island have some
crazy ups and downs, which you know, the North Island
just doesn't really get those big temperature swings, not to
the same degree anyway. But yeah, Canterbury, Otago, those two
areas especially get pounced by these changes. It's a weird

(02:10):
thing to say, because you're looking at someone else's problems
to make itself feel better. But if you look at
the weather in Tasmania and Victoria, they're getting the polar
boundary coming up over the almost every week. Still we've
got a couple more times coming up, so the weather
over there is far more wintry and unsettled than it
is here. That's my silver lining for you. And you know,
we've got another bit of a cold flick at the

(02:31):
end of this week, but it's going to be a
warmer than average week really for Monday through to Friday
in just about the entire country.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Okay, any reprieve for the dry regions.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Look, there's a little bit, but not much. What we've
got this week is a subtropical flow and a north
to northwesterly flow now that could actually drive in some
really heavy rain for Bay of Plenty. It really captures
a subtropical northerly that seeds in there. Some of that
might spill over into Hawk's Bay. Probably not the southern
parts of Hawk's Bay, but certainly northern Hawk's Bay's got

(03:01):
a chance to it. But if you're further southwards, wided
up at Wellington, Marlborough, christ Church or Canterbury, excuse me,
and right down to Otago, those areas basically have no
rain coming up other than a bit of spillover from
some of those other systems.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, we'll fill. I'm looking at the drought index map,
Hawk's Bay standing out and then other parts of the
East coast. We're seeing Marlborough right down to christ Church
are we are wee bit there in mid Canterbury, South Canterbury.
So the East coasts are definitely starting to dry out. Phil.
Thank you very much for your time. Really appreciate it, mate,
My pleasure. Have you week, Yeah you too,