The Country 28/03/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

Niwa's "weather guy" on the Big Dry.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris Brandolino joins us on the country. I was bemoaning
the fact, Chris, that I've been dragged along. I'm being
dragged along to a play tonight, but I will get
home in time, hopefully to see the rugby. Does Missus
Brandolino try that sort of stuff with you.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I think there was a time when, you know, when
we were dating, early marriage, before kids, where let's go
see musical, Let's see a play. Now I'm up for
a musical.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm up for a musical, but I'm just not sure
whether I'm cultured enough for a play.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'd much rather see a player than a musical. But
what's funny is that I don't know. Like with musicals,
I'm like, just talk to the lyrics, don't sing them.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
No, hang on, Chris, I'll tell you one you've got
to go to. I saw it on my pension as
trip to New York. Six. It's the story. It's a
great musical, and it's about the six wives of Henry
the Eighth. It's very good.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Six wife my gosh.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, I imagine six of them. One of them have enough. Anyhow,
Let's get onto the way, though, can you can you
be the bearer of good news for us short term.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
No, we are going to see a little bit of
rain in the corn Handle this week and some showers
and a few showers and Aukland to Northland Saturday tomorrow,
so that will help. Places like Dargaville and Dire Straits
really use the rain in southwest Northland. So there will
be some, but you know, we're talking a handful of
millimeters enough to keep the dust down. I suppose a

(01:31):
bit of rain maybe in Tedanaki on Sunday, but then
spotty showers are talking five millimeters or less basically beyond that,
we are going to have to castorize farther afield. We've
been talking about a late March or early April potential
for rain, and that still looks to be true. It's
now going to be early April. It looks like and
I think when you and I are talking this time

(01:52):
next week, we'll be talking about very likely some heavy
rain that will be impacting the west of the South Island.
That is a dry area, but that is an area
more importantly where we store our water for generating electricity,
so they've been quite dry. They'll use that rain for sure.
And then I think probably Friday and maybe the following weekend,

(02:12):
we'll get some rain into the North Island. It won't
be as much as we need, not nearly enough, but
it will be certainly step in the right direction, and
hopefully we can get more after that. That's the ifpy
part we probably we may get. We may get a
bit more after that, but as you look farther afield
into April, I think that it will be challenging to
get persistent rain. There may be a bit of a

(02:33):
dry and lean still for parts of the upper North
Island for April, but as you progress past April, I
think the odds for more regular rainfall will increase for
May and especially June. So nothing in the short term,
but I am hopeful that beyond that we will get
some good rains starting with mid mainly later next week.

(02:53):
Mentioned real quick jam before going back to you. It
is with that rain because there air will be coming
from the northwest the middle and later part of next week.
It will get exceptionally warm. There could be some temperatures
next week and not this but next week, and that
could come close to thirty potentially for eastern parts of
either island, particularly North Island. What we'll see in that
that's still far away.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay mate, thank you very much for your time. Chris Brendolino.
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