The Country 03/03/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country for a Monday with Monday's Weekly rain Dance.
Phil Duncan from weather Watch, let's get straight into it, Phil,
More and more of the North Island is now being
declared as drought. What do you got for them?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, So, basically we did see some rain relief come
into those areas around kin Country Taranaki by Tomo in
the last couple of weeks. Wasn't a huge amount. It
was just enough to kind of reduce that drought jumps
back to the next level, which is extremely dry. You know,
same thing basically splitting hairs, but there's a technical difference.
We're now seeing that dry extend further up into the

(00:33):
western side of Northland around Hokianga Harbor to the northern
side of that western side of Northland very dry. Auckland's
catching up Waikato as too, So we need rain. There's
a little bit coming tomorrow. It's probably not enough to
make any big difference to those dry areas, but it
will be welcomed, but it may not be much.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
And the dry is starting to creep into the South Island,
southern South Island too.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah. What we found is that in the last couple
of weeks. The rain that came into the north and
reduced the drought area, made it smaller, but it made
all the other areas get slightly dry, and so we've
sort of seen the lower level. It's on that drought index.
You know, it's just got dry, very dry, extremely dry.
Those different categories are being felled up more and more
across New Zealand. The rain that's coming in over the

(01:18):
next twenty four hours or so mostly eastern driven, so
it'll help out Canterbury and Hawk's Bay and Wideed Upper
and Gisbon and those areas more than it will the
western side of the country.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, Phil, Well that's I can't shoot the messenger. We
just need a bit of a change in the weather pattern.
But thank you very much as always for your time.
I appreciate it. Mate.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
You are very welcome. Enjoy the high pressure.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
On the way there we go, Pell Duncan There