The Country 28/11/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weather on the country with farm lands helping to prevent
parasite outbreaks this summer. So there you go, Chris, you're
that good. We've even sponsored you off. What does Thanksgiving? What?
What does Thanksgiving Day mean to you as an American? Ah?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's it's uh two half words and they're good words.
Food and football.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, and family.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, yeah, triplef that's right. Family, that's right. How can
I forget that?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay? So I know the food and family. Yeah, I
know that. I know the food and family connection. We're
going to talk to Todd Clark about that. But what's
the football. There's always obviously a lot of footy on
the telly on Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, American football. So we're smack dab in the middle
probably the second half of the season, and from about
Thanksgiving time that's when things start getting, you know, more
serious in terms of playoff picture and things like that.
And it's always the Dallas Cowboys they play a game,
and separate to that, the Detroit Lions play game. It's
been a tradition for gosh decades, but more recently, over

(01:05):
the past ten years they've added to the schedule to
get a few more games in because you know, everyone's home,
people are socializing, and the TV's on. Also you have
the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade which is in New York City,
which kind of ushers in the Christmas season. So yeah,
a bit of a purist in my house. You know,
Thanksgiving obviously American holiday doesn't mean much here of anything

(01:27):
in New Zealand. But you know, there's always this debate,
what does the Christmas tree go up? When do you
start getting into the Christmas season? And I always say
you got to give proper love and homage to Thanksgiving,
then you get into the Christmas sphere. So oftentimes Thanksgiving
is that kind of pivot point from from autumn to winter,
and also people start getting more into the Christmas sphere.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, well let's go from the pivot point. Let's go
from a pivot point on the Southern Hemisphere spring to summer.
On Monday, you guys at Earth Sciences Z and Z
the artist fool known as Newa come out with your
summer outlook, and I'm looking at your drought indick smap
and every Friday I talk to you, there's more yellow
on it's and it's the east coast of both islands.

(02:10):
I know, some of the farmers are getting away bit desperate.
What do you got for them?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So look over the next five days, let's talk five
day chunks. There is going to be a good drop
of rain for the upper North Island. Let's start from
the top of work Away south, all right, and that
will come in the form of showers, maybe some heavy thunderstorms. Today.
We'll get that, no doubt about it. A bit of
a break tomorrow, but then on Sunday, especially late Sunday

(02:35):
and to Monday, another round of showers and thunderstorms and
there could be some heavy downpours and pretty strong thunderstorms.
Kind of a pretty far out there in terms of time,
but that could come Tuesday and Wednesday, so something to
keep in mind. And it'll be gusty wind Hawk's Bay.
You need the rain, I know it. Water Rapper, particularly
eastern water Rapper, you need the rain, and unfortunately you're
not gonna get as much as the others in the

(02:56):
North Island. You'll get some rain, but it won't be
nearly as much. Such as what will happen over the
Central Plateau, Tetanaki, the Manawatu, the Waikato, et cetera, et cetera.
So the good news some rain, the bad news not
nearly as much as you need or want. And they'll
be wind too, so the wind that will keep temperatures
quite hot. We're looking at some really hot temperatures this

(03:16):
weekend and probably into early next week, so that will
continue for the South Island. We're going to see rain
on the western side, chiefly because of this western northwest
flow over the next five days. Eastern area is not
going to see as much. It looks like as we
go farther afield after this sort of active weather, we're
going to see Jamie over the next week, we are

(03:37):
going to see a change to somewhat more settled weather.
I think a period of chili temperatures for the South
Island in say mid December, early to mid December. But
the concern is dryness. I think as we get into
week two, week three, and basically after the first week
of December, I guess, to put quite simply, we do

(03:58):
have to watch for prolonged, extended dryness for much of
the North Island and maybe a good chunk of the
South Island. It's the time of the year in mid
December to mid January where the sun is at its apex,
it's most intense, it's strong, so we're stripping away a
lot of moisture from the ground and we're not going
to be putting much back into it. So just a

(04:18):
heads up for everyone. As we get into mid December
and probably for significant for several weeks, there's likely to
be a reduction of rainfall and we could see a
rapid onset of dryness for parts of the country as
we get you know, before Christmas and after Christmas, so
we'll keep our eyes on that, and then as we
get toward maybe I suppose February, we can see more

(04:40):
quintessential line medium like airflows east and northeast winds and
rainfall enhancements for the northern and eastern part of the
North Island. Look, Jamie, I hear that music though. That's
my cue to wrap it up here.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, as a summer outlook will be released on Monday.
Chris Brendelena and Between Tones.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Have a good weekend, you two, buddy. Thank you there
we got he.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Does a right job. From Earth Sciences, New Zealand, Chris
Brandolino