The Country 26/05/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s resident weather expert on flooding in Nelson, some rain coming, and a mild May.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country with Phil Duncan, Monday's resident weather expert
from weatherwatch dot co dot Nz. Phil, I see there's
a bit of flooding going on in Nelson.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, we've had a bit of rain moving through, a
little large low in the Tasman that's moving on in
and in fact it doesn't even arrive till Thursday. But
this is the outer edges of the cold front, first
cold front to arrive. Hopefully some of that rains easing,
but now the North Island's going to be seeing some
of it move through. Might even be a few heavy
falls coming in tonight, isolated thunderstorm or to at the

(00:30):
top of the country coming off the Tasman Sea. But
it's really sort of Wednesday, the northwest is kickin. Rain
comes into the western side of the country again and
that's kind of the main low pressure zone coming through,
which means Thursday and Friday, especially Thursday, a lot of
low pressure over the North Island. Lots of downpours and
some thunderstorms around on Thursday coming off the Tasman, mostly

(00:53):
for the top half of the North Island off the Tasman,
but might brush you the top part of the South Island.
As well, and by the time we get to Friday,
in the long weekend, big strong autumn or wintry southwesterly
flow across the country. Lots of showers along the west
and the south of the country. And if you live
in the east Canterbury, for example, wided Upper Hawke's Bay,

(01:14):
maybe Gisbon as well, those areas are not going to
be seeing very much wet weather over the next several days.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Mind you, at Queen's Birthday weekend signals, as the calendar
would dictate the beginning of winter, we can't complain may
have been very good.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, it's been warmer than average by one to two
degrees and some people don't think that's a lot, but
that when you measure out all the highs and lows
across the month and it comes up one to two
degrees above normal, that is actually quite a lot above
what we would normally be getting. So it's been warmer. Airflows,
a lot of subtropical winds, a lot of airflows out
of Australia, and the southerlys we have had have not

(01:49):
come from Antarctica. A lot of them have actually come
from just out of the southern part of Australia. So yeah,
it's been warmer than average, even if we've been having
cold days in some areas and some cold not, it's
definitely been a warmer than average airflow coming into the
country for the past few months, not even just the
last few weeks, but the past few months now.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You had a bit of a home handyman's accident, got
your old face a bit beat up. Are you back
in front of the video yet or are you still
a face for radio?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Back in front of the TV screen today on YouTube?
It was a little bit nervous doing it, but lots
of makeup and you can barely see a thing, so
it's amazing what you can do with light cameras and makeup.
But yeah, it's been a bit of a journey. Still
got a bit while to go to fully recover from it.
But it's just one of those things that, yeah, as
you get older, you learn to be a little more careful.

(02:36):
And also while we talk, my condolences to you Jamie
with the loss of your close mate last week and
we're all thinking of you at the moment and obviously
the family as well.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, thanks very much, Phil really appreciate that