The Country 23/06/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday's resident weather expert says expect a burst of windy and wet weather mid to later this week nationwide from the west,  then a wintry lower South Island this weekend after a brief mid week warm up. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you make of the All Black Side.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Oh it sounds really good. Ten out of ten.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're not a big rugby man, though, Pell.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm from a family that loves rugby, so grew up with,
you know, watching the games in the middle of the
night and all that stuff. And I do still like
the big games. I watched the Crusader's play the Chiefs
at the weekend. But I'm not a very big yeah fan.
Put it that way. I don't know enough about rugby
like I do about clouds and things like that.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Al Right, I will get you onto your area of expertise,
and that is the weather. And you sent me a
text this morning. Burst of windy and wet weather mid
to late this week nationwide from the west, then wintry
lower South Island this weekend after a brief MIDWEK warm up.
I'm going to be in christ Church for the next
few days for the Primary industry summit. I'm missing golf

(00:49):
on Wednesday. What a tragedy that is. But I also
have a rugby reunion in Southland over the weekend. I
better bring the wallies.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah you will. I mean, if you're in christ Shirts,
it'll be pretty pleasant. On Wednesday and Thursday, daytime highs
sixteen seventeen degrees, maybe warmer overnight lows and the double
digits for a time, but that's all ahead of this
cold change. So basically, to make the week simple, we've
got high pressure moving into the country today. That's why
it's windy around Auckland and some northern parts of New

(01:20):
Zealand and some other exposed places. Tomorrow we've got the
high pressure zone. So if frosty start in the South
Islands and terrier maybe around the Central Plateau in the
North Island, but by Wednesday that high's already leaving in
comes the windy Northwest is partially out of the subtropics,
so temperatures go up nationwide, frosts all disappear. Rain comes
in on Thursday Friday and then turns to showers, and

(01:42):
behind all of that, that's where the wintry weather comes in.
It's mainly when I say wintery, I mean sort of,
you know, single digit daytime highs, overnight lows back down
around freezing snow on the mountains. But to be honest
with you, so far this winter it's been a bit
of a who hum winter from a severe weather point
of view, which is great, so hopefully we can kick
that up, but it's a lot of big high pressure

(02:03):
zones still moving through it the month.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, if you're going to get crap weather or bad
weather pardon my French, there are furlier June's the perfect
months to get it for everyone.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It is. And you know, I said this in my
Farmer's weekly column, the o the last couple of weeks
when is our coldest period of weather? Because traditionally, when
you look at the you know what we get each month,
you'd say, well, that's usually July and August, but it
changes every year depending on the high pressure zones we've
got moving around. So we don't know yet if we've
had our coldest period of weather. Chances are we haven't,

(02:33):
but the last the first week of June was very
cold to the South Island. So interesting to see what
we get because as we get closer to spring, the
windy westerly is kind of like what we're seeing this week,
they wake up a bit more. So it'd be interesting
to see how July shapes up and August we can
still get winter weather right through till October, but the
coldest period of the year can be anywhere from May

(02:55):
through till August.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, Phil, hey, thanks for some of your time and
that insight for Rugby Common Tree.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Good on your Phil dunk in there from weather Watch