The Country 19/05/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s resident weatherman has been missing in action for the past two weeks, and even his mother is wondering what’s happened to him.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This man's been missing an action for the past couple
of weeks. His name is Phil Duncan from Where the Watch,
and even his own mother, the Lovely Hazel Duncan, was
asking where he is, so we better ask him, where
have you been? Phil?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah? Hello, I had a little bit of an accident
in the garden and ended up with twenty stitchures in
my face, which I have now gone and I'm in
the sun recovery process and.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Your model good looks will be ruined by that too.
Now I won't go on, and I'm glad you've recovered,
because I know, in all seriousness it was a bit
of a nasty spill. Just before we talk about the weather,
because it's pretty calm and settled week coming up. Have
you been through the Esk Valley since cyclone? Gabrielle.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I haven't been through it, but I've got extended family
who we just recently met for a family reunion who
were telling me all about it. But I haven't myself
been through it yet. No.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, I just got a text and someone saying I'm
born and bred and Napier and the Esk Valleys like
chalk and cheese before and after the cyclone. Admittedly the
cleanup has been good, but very different these days. Yeah,
it is in terms of what's happening in there. Thoughts
and pretty thoughts for those people. But look, the good
news is, and we were talking to some people up
the road in Gisbon, they've had a great season on

(01:15):
the east coast of the North Island there, which is
good after the Gabrielle sort of thing and short and
sharp the weather forecasts this week, Phil Winter's arrived. It's
been a week bit chilly, but the good news is
we're going to get a fine and for some people
frosty week.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, there were few frosts again tonight, especially around the
South Island interior. Not very many coastal frosts though so
far this yet it's been kind of a couple of
degrees above average during April and may seem to be
about a degree or so above normal, So even with
this cold change, it's not overly cold, it's just sort
of closer to normal. High pressure is going to take
until about the end of the weeks, at around Thursday

(01:51):
Friday before it moves in over us, and then during
the weekend it slides out to the east and our
wind starts to warm up and it becomes a bit
more maybe even subtropical. So yeah, if you frost around,
maybe even to the central North Island overnight tonight and
tomorrow morning. But it's not a freezing cold week for
the most part. The Southerlys are not really coming out
of Antarctica. They're really coming from out of Australia.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Do you do like a long range winter forecast.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm not a big fan of them. I'm not a
big fan of a forecast beyond a few weeks, to
be honest, in this part of the world. But what
we are seeing is a lot of high pressure still
streaming through Australia and that's starting to break up a
little bit more so. They've got drought across a large
portion of southern areas of Australia. Bit of rain on
the way for them, and that's a bit of a
good sign that perhaps these big dominant high pressure systems

(02:36):
are finally breaking up, because they've been very dominant in
New Zealand this year, even with the rain makers we've
had recently.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I felt great to have you back and hello to
Ain and Heizel Duncan listening in Tiaraha right.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thank you Yeah, that's the one

Speaker 1 (02:51):
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