April 21, 2025 • 5 mins
Monday’s resident weather expert joins us on a Tuesday. He explained what was up with all the thunderstorms over the weekend and previewed the forecast for Anzac Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me now is Phil Duncan from weather Watch, DUNKH
Dot and Z and Phil. My goodness. We said it
in the lead in last week. Anytime we go to
a long weekend, a bit of a holiday, the weather
comes at us, and it certainly did that over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, gooday, Yeah, definitely did typical Easter weekend where yes,
severe were the warnings around the place, and some areas
we were beautiful and hot with twenty seven degrees in sunshine,
and others had really intense rainfall thunderstorms, and there were
even those gale force winds as we went into the weekend.
So yeah, a bit of everything thrown at us over
the past few days.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I wasn't really taking much notice of the weather. I
was out hunting for the four days in the Manototo
and then also processing, so I spent a lot of
time in the chiller. But I must say every time
I looked at my phone, there were push notifications about weather,
and then maybe there were some that came out after
the fact with the thunderstorms that had Auckland, and then
(00:56):
it to me looked like everyone was in a bit
of a panic trying to make up for having missed
them and so then jumping at anything that could have
been a thunderstorm.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This has happened just so many times in the twenty
years that I've run weather Watch, where something's messed and
then the next day you're just inundated with warnings about
stuff that you're not even getting. The civil defense ones
are the ones that I find the most frustrating because
they're forced onto your phone, and to me, when I
was a kid growing up, the civil defense was something
that was activated when something really made you as happening.
(01:29):
It wasn't just used for a thunderstorm warning. It's different
if it starts to cause problems. Absolutely, But I think
my personal feeling is civil defense loses some of its
mana every time they put themselves just out with the
daily warning that may or may not happen. It sort
of ruins their credibility.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think, I must say. At three fourteen this morning,
and I hope Jamie mackay is listening to his show
while he's away. At three fourteen this morning, I thought
the civil defense alarm had gone off on my phone
because I'm staying up at Jamie's up there what he
calls Rosalind Heights. No, it was the smoke alarm in
my bedroom going off at three fourteen this morning kind
(02:08):
of in my sleep. Sounded like that, you know, the alert,
that awful noise that comes out in your phone. And no,
I think there was no smoke. It was absolutely fine.
It just yeah, it was a horrible way to wake
up this morning. Anyway, I am turning into Jamie I digress.
What did we actually see over the weekend? A lot
(02:29):
of rain did hit parts of the country that desperately
needed it, so at least that's something.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We did a special video on Saturday, and one of
the things I was talking about in the video is
a word called training, which is a term that we
use in weather forecasting for when there's a line of
showers and thunderstorms, kind of big blobs of rain, and
they track in a lane from north to south. This
is the reason why over the weekend some areas were
just an undated but you know, well over one or
(02:54):
two hundred millimeters of rain, and then someone just nearby
them might have only had five, ten fifty, And yet
you're sort of wonder, how on earth you know that
that wasn't sort of seen in advance. But it's because
these showers created by an ex tropical cyclone pulling that
humid subtropical air down over us, and that instability with
you this time of the year with the longer cold
(03:15):
and IROs and colder air being mixed in produces those
sorts of thunderstorms. Rain relief wasn't for everybody. Some of
the areas around the sort of kind of a triangle
shape if you go sort of from around about the
National Park. This is in the North Island, the National
Park kind of area in central Plateau there down towards
sort of Napier and up sort of towards Toccotoa. Those
(03:36):
in South Wacicotto. Those are the sort of triangle and
the part of the central North Island where a lot
of people missed out on rain or sort of in
the rough general area around that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, it's an interesting one, and you know, I just
kind of wonder fore what people and other countries who
maybe don't have as much weather chat as New Zealand
being a long, skinny island, what they talk about.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean, there's there is really very few other countries
in the world that have the kind of weather that
we have because we are so far south, because we
are partially in the roaring forties, and so our weather
is extremely changeable in our mountains and ranges in every
part of the region that you live in, they break
it up again, and so it is really hard. And
New Zealand doesn't have open weather data, which means that
(04:20):
when the rain does get to a really heavy amount,
companies like US can't just automatically warn you about it.
We've got to do a commercial deal with the net
service to make that happen. So hopefully the Kneewer Net
Service merger might fix that. But I'm not holding my
breath yet.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You're getting political for we need to move on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We guys into Friday nights warnings though.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's why no, I hear you, I hear you. Hey,
this week is looking a little more settled. But what
are we Tuesday, Friday, Zanzac Day? I reckon we can
look ahead to that find out what's going on if
people are able to make it along to the dawn
parades and then the services later in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, this stage and Jack Day is looking pretty good
right the country. There might be some morning sort of
drizzle or showers in the top half of the North Island,
so Baya plenty, kind of NORTHWI. Maybe maybe out towards
sort of the Gisbone area. Light showers coming in with
an easterly Apart from that, not really seeing rain. Is
high pressure right over the top of New Zealand just
(05:18):
drifting out to the east past Wellington, over towards the
Chatham Islands. That's where it's likely to be parked as
we wake up on Anzac Day morning on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, indeed, Phil Duncan from weather Watch, dontco, dot m
Z really appreciate your time today and you keep fighting
the good fight about getting those alerts out to people
at the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Thank you very much. Thank you
Joining me now is Phil Duncan from weather Watch, DUNKH
Dot and Z and Phil. My goodness. We said it
in the lead in last week. Anytime we go to
a long weekend, a bit of a holiday, the weather
comes at us, and it certainly did that over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, gooday, Yeah, definitely did typical Easter weekend where yes,
severe were the warnings around the place, and some areas
we were beautiful and hot with twenty seven degrees in sunshine,
and others had really intense rainfall thunderstorms, and there were
even those gale force winds as we went into the weekend.
So yeah, a bit of everything thrown at us over
the past few days.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I wasn't really taking much notice of the weather. I
was out hunting for the four days in the Manototo
and then also processing, so I spent a lot of
time in the chiller. But I must say every time
I looked at my phone, there were push notifications about weather,
and then maybe there were some that came out after
the fact with the thunderstorms that had Auckland, and then
(00:56):
it to me looked like everyone was in a bit
of a panic trying to make up for having missed
them and so then jumping at anything that could have
been a thunderstorm.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This has happened just so many times in the twenty
years that I've run weather Watch, where something's messed and
then the next day you're just inundated with warnings about
stuff that you're not even getting. The civil defense ones
are the ones that I find the most frustrating because
they're forced onto your phone, and to me, when I
was a kid growing up, the civil defense was something
that was activated when something really made you as happening.
(01:29):
It wasn't just used for a thunderstorm warning. It's different
if it starts to cause problems. Absolutely, But I think
my personal feeling is civil defense loses some of its
mana every time they put themselves just out with the
daily warning that may or may not happen. It sort
of ruins their credibility.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think, I must say. At three fourteen this morning,
and I hope Jamie mackay is listening to his show
while he's away. At three fourteen this morning, I thought
the civil defense alarm had gone off on my phone
because I'm staying up at Jamie's up there what he
calls Rosalind Heights. No, it was the smoke alarm in
my bedroom going off at three fourteen this morning kind
(02:08):
of in my sleep. Sounded like that, you know, the alert,
that awful noise that comes out in your phone. And no,
I think there was no smoke. It was absolutely fine.
It just yeah, it was a horrible way to wake
up this morning. Anyway, I am turning into Jamie I digress.
What did we actually see over the weekend? A lot
(02:29):
of rain did hit parts of the country that desperately
needed it, so at least that's something.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We did a special video on Saturday, and one of
the things I was talking about in the video is
a word called training, which is a term that we
use in weather forecasting for when there's a line of
showers and thunderstorms, kind of big blobs of rain, and
they track in a lane from north to south. This
is the reason why over the weekend some areas were
just an undated but you know, well over one or
(02:54):
two hundred millimeters of rain, and then someone just nearby
them might have only had five, ten fifty, And yet
you're sort of wonder, how on earth you know that
that wasn't sort of seen in advance. But it's because
these showers created by an ex tropical cyclone pulling that
humid subtropical air down over us, and that instability with
you this time of the year with the longer cold
(03:15):
and IROs and colder air being mixed in produces those
sorts of thunderstorms. Rain relief wasn't for everybody. Some of
the areas around the sort of kind of a triangle
shape if you go sort of from around about the
National Park. This is in the North Island, the National
Park kind of area in central Plateau there down towards
sort of Napier and up sort of towards Toccotoa. Those
(03:36):
in South Wacicotto. Those are the sort of triangle and
the part of the central North Island where a lot
of people missed out on rain or sort of in
the rough general area around that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, it's an interesting one, and you know, I just
kind of wonder fore what people and other countries who
maybe don't have as much weather chat as New Zealand
being a long, skinny island, what they talk about.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean, there's there is really very few other countries
in the world that have the kind of weather that
we have because we are so far south, because we
are partially in the roaring forties, and so our weather
is extremely changeable in our mountains and ranges in every
part of the region that you live in, they break
it up again, and so it is really hard. And
New Zealand doesn't have open weather data, which means that
(04:20):
when the rain does get to a really heavy amount,
companies like US can't just automatically warn you about it.
We've got to do a commercial deal with the net
service to make that happen. So hopefully the Kneewer Net
Service merger might fix that. But I'm not holding my
breath yet.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You're getting political for we need to move on.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We guys into Friday nights warnings though.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's why no, I hear you, I hear you. Hey,
this week is looking a little more settled. But what
are we Tuesday, Friday, Zanzac Day? I reckon we can
look ahead to that find out what's going on if
people are able to make it along to the dawn
parades and then the services later in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, this stage and Jack Day is looking pretty good
right the country. There might be some morning sort of
drizzle or showers in the top half of the North Island,
so Baya plenty, kind of NORTHWI. Maybe maybe out towards
sort of the Gisbone area. Light showers coming in with
an easterly Apart from that, not really seeing rain. Is
high pressure right over the top of New Zealand just
(05:18):
drifting out to the east past Wellington, over towards the
Chatham Islands. That's where it's likely to be parked as
we wake up on Anzac Day morning on Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, indeed, Phil Duncan from weather Watch, dontco, dot m
Z really appreciate your time today and you keep fighting
the good fight about getting those alerts out to people
at the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Thank you very much. Thank you
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