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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On gold Sport. Now, all the talk around the country really,
when you think about it, from North Cape to the Bluff,
is about the weather. So I thought we'd go to
whether watch dot cod on enz's Philip Duncan to talk
where the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Philip, Good morning, how are you very well?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you? There's some crazy stuff going on where well,
seventeen or so days into spring, but really winter isn't over,
is it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No? Not really? You know, spring is all about winter
slowly fading away and hens of summer slowly coming in.
So it's a bit of a transition period, especially in
September and October, when we still get these very frequent
reminders that winter's only just starting to fade away.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We're talking about snow down south as we speak, virtually,
and it's tough for the farmers who are landing down
there at the moment. But they're getting a real cold snap,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, you know, the lower South Island is especially exposed
to this, and the web Chaill is going to be
pretty brutal across today in particular, And then we've got
the frosts across the country tonight, so for newborn livestocks
going to be a very tough twenty four to forty
eight hours in some areas. The good news is it
does start to warm up in just a day or two,
so this is quite short lived and that's the sign
(01:09):
of it being spring. In winter it tends to linger
for months, so linga for days rather than just one day.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So that coldfront that's moving through the south at the moment,
is that going to move right up the country?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it is. So it's starting to move into the
North Island this morning, and so those showers coming off
the Tasman Sea are going to get stronger and heavier,
and the winds associated where it will become stronger as well.
So Auckland is quite exposed to having stronger gale force
winds this afternoon, perhaps more so than other places, but
hopefully to be short lived and just associated with some
(01:45):
of those big squadly showers.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Have been talking over the past twenty four hours or
so about hail, lightning, thunder being thrown at the North
Island in particular. Has that been happening there?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Hasn't man a huge amount of thunderstorms because I mean
the system is not quite as active as say the
one that we had a couple of weeks ago, which
brought a lot of thunderstorms in this one is going
to be a bit hit and miss, and so some
of these showers coming off the Takman or be Squawly
might have some thunder and hail, and then as we
go through the day, some of those snow showers go
(02:16):
further up the North Island on those mountains and ranges,
maybe even up as far north as the Kaimai Ranges
around the Waikato region.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I noticed that there is a big high off the
coast of Australia. Will that sort of move on to
New Zealand in the coming days, Not as much.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
As you might want it to. It is stuck out there.
But that's part of the reason why we're getting this
windy weather and this cold weather is that placement of
that high. It does try to move in closer, and
we do get some slightly more center weather at times
to the north of New Zealands, but not necessarily for
everybody else. It's still a very chaotic weather pattern that
we've been seeing for the last few months, carrying on
(02:52):
down to September.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So when this one passes through in the next twenty
four hours or so, is that ed or is more
to come?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Do you know? Well, the Southern Ocean weather is very
stormy this year. The low pressure is lower than usual
because it is so stormy down around Antarctica. That means
we're at a higher risk of getting snowstorms or a
frost event as we go through this year, whereas perhaps
previous springs weren't quite as messy. So this year is
a little bit different, I think because of that one reason.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And looking ahead, I mean, look into your crystal ball
as far as the summer is concerned. Have you had
time to sort of analyze models yet of what it's
going to be like?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You know, I thought today in the Herald that Neewas
call about Larnina is a fifty to fifty call. So
that's a pretty amazing job if that's what you call.
Is Look that Larnina is trying to form, but you know,
the modeling suggests it's not looking like it's going to
be very strong if it does. So. I think for now,
the weather pattern we've got for the last three or
(03:52):
four months of really chaotic weather, I think that looks
likely to continue on. There's no sign yet that that's
going to change, so some it could be you know,
spring light going into it, with some hot days coming
out of Australia, it could be a variety of weather
rather than sort of more more settled Philip.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We appreciate your input into the show. Thank you, thank
you so much, my pleasure, no worries at all,