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

Monday's weather expert on a Tuesday! It's going to be dry for the last week of March, but will April bring autumn rains?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are wrapping the country for a Tuesday with Monday's weather expert,
Pell Duncan. Five years ago today, just cinder locked this down.
It was a bit of a happy time for me
in some ways. The first lockdown. We were deemed essential
workers here on the wireless and got to come in
every day and break the shackles from home, and a
lot of people got cabin fever at home. What about you, Yeah,

(00:21):
it was.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The weather was kind of like it is at the
moment for the top of the North Island. It was sunny, warm,
and yeah, sort of it felt like school had been canceled.
It felt like, sort of like nothing felt normal anymore,
and it was sort of like an extended holiday, even
though as a weather forecaster I had to put on
a shirt and a suit every day to do a

(00:42):
weather video.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, there's no afel. There's no rest for weather men.
There's no rest for farmers either, the primary sector. It
kept going. The wheels of industry kept turning during lockdown. Look,
very briefly, what do you got for the dry parts,
especially of the North Island.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
So we've got a cold front coming in this week,
kicks in late Wednesday night comes in really properly Thursday
as it moves up the South Island, and big temperature
drop for the southern half of the South Island several
degrees colder and in fact over ten degrees colder than
some places were at the end of last week. But
that system falls apart on Friday as it moves into
the North Island, so there will be some showers, patchy

(01:20):
kind of rain around the North Island on Friday. Then
we're back to high pressure for the rest of the month.
Keep in mind the month is only six days left,
so in April, hopefully we'll get some gaps in the highs,
start getting a chance of some rain coming through.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah. Do you see that change in the weather pattern
happening though, or is this just wishful thinking?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
The high pressure belt is still coming out from south
of Australia, so that is still in the mix. But
we are seeing a break in that high pressure belt
at the start of April. Whether or not that break
occurs over New Zealand or further out over the Tasman
in Australia, that's part can't quite lock in it. But
there's a whole lot of rain coming out of Australia,
huge amount of rain coming to Queensland over the next week,

(01:59):
and an ocean also looking really stormy for the start
of April, so we just need the hy to break
apart at the right time. Over US, I think next
week I'll be able to be a bit lot more
detailed about how we're looking.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
They might okay, Phil, thanks as always for your time.
I appreciated apologies for being a day late, but you
never let us down. All good, no worries, Phil Duncan.
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