The Country 27/06/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

NIWA's weather guy on the Big Wet hitting the country, particularly Nelson and Marlborough.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hall and Oates, biggest selling duo of the nineteen eighties.
Nineteen eighty Five's my theme you today just because I can.
Chris Brandolino joins us from New work. Chris, where were
you in nineteen eighty five?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, upstate New York, in the capital region of New
York State, Albany, New York. So, yeah, that's where I was,
probably looking at clouds and doing weather stuff like I
am now changed.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
As long as you're not an angry old man shouting
at clouds, as their former minister has been accused of being.
So let's talk about clouds. There's too many of them
park themselves over top of Nelson and Marlborough. Some really
really heavy rain there. We've got thunderstorm warming warnings, should
I say for the North Island this afternoon? Chris give

(00:52):
it to us, baby.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah. Look, the heavy rain continues right now for far
eastern Tasman into the Nelson area, certainly Marlborough and Blend
them seeing very pretty, studying heavy rain at the moment.
That's going to continue basically Nelson Richmond eastbound at least
of the afternoon I think overnight hours. It may persist

(01:16):
toward eastern Marlboro, so there's still more rain to come,
so unfortunately, not good news there. And some places looking
at the Tasman District rain gages and the higher elevations
of the Tasman District, have received over four hundred millimeters
of rain in thirty six hours, so a real beluge
in places in Marlboro and across the Nelson area have

(01:40):
received more than a month worth the rain in about
a day day and a half, so this is what
we're seeing flooding now. In other parts of the country,
we still are seeing very active weather. We have heavy
rain across much of the Waikato, much of the eastern
Tetanaki region. We could really use the rain in eastern
portions of the water Rapi southeastern North Island where it's

(02:02):
been still dry, so hopefully some rain gets in there.
The heavy rain is about to clear the Northland and
even Auckland area, so the weather will improve in Waikato,
but it may take some time and then eventually this
all goes away. So the good news is that as
we work away into tomorrow, things will be much better
across the country. We're still going to have some rain

(02:24):
across the top of the South Island and parts of
New Zealand for tomorrow, but not that much. There will
be some snow to lower levels in Otago tomorrow as well,
and some wind things really settle down early next week,
so a nice couple days early next week before another
low comes in from the Tasman Sea tugging down moisture
from the subtropics and tropics. That looks to be toward

(02:47):
Thursday into Friday of next week. So honestly, guys, it's
wash rinse repeat. We could be doing it again and
doing it again next week, and I think July is
going to be a very active month. We are likely
to see some visitors from the north, which means these
moist air flows keeping us warm but also increasing the
arts or these big rain events like we're seeing today

(03:09):
and that we very well may see later next week.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, Chris Brandolino, thanks for your time. I know you've
been flat out there at NEE. We're monitoring all this
weather and I must say to all the weather forecasters,
they got it pretty much right, didn't they. So everyone
in the Nelson Marlborough region was worn. It was coming