The Country 30/05/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Hamish McKay

Niwa’s principal scientist, our weather guy for Friday, gives a preview for the weather heading into “official” winter. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The country time now to be joined by with a
guy on Friday gives us all the great information Chris Branda, Lena.
How are you, Chris Joda?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm well. How are you Hamish?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, very well, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I've enjoyed the sound of mine voice a bit much
this hour, so I'm gonna have to get you cracking through.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
What's the outlook all the way in? What do we
what can we speak?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think, generally speaking, it'll be good. Not everywhere. I
think eastern parts of of both islands. So if you're
listening from eastern Bay of plenty Gisbon, particularly Hawk's Bay,
eastern Water Rappa, also Canterbury looking pretty good, that's where
dry weather is most likely to persist. It is going
to be a windy weekend. I think the wind will
grab weather headlines for much of well certainly tomorrow and Saturday,

(00:45):
So like Dunedin will be quite windy on Saturday, especially
out in the peninsula and also to our coastal southland
and over the high country Water Rappa, Ontior Hawks Bay,
over the range's usual suspects, and that wind will pist
into Sunday, but easing just a little bit. So the
wind strongest tomorrow, but getting better with time and temperature

(01:07):
is really not that bad. It's chilly weather tomorrow, so
if you're in Southland, if you're in toagots and Otago
tomorrow it will be chili, especially with the wind, and
it will be showers of rain and snow to about
one thousand meters or so.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, tory to stud dunkin from being the Windowbourn area
early in Omarca down round there, but a snow there
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Have we seen what we're going to see of that?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Look our winter outlook we just released it last yesterday,
I should say, I beg your pardon. And the winter
outlook is that it's going to be a warmer than
average winter. That's what we're expecting. Now, Yes, there'll be
cold snaps and frost Hamish, but it's expected they'll be
probably less of those in what is typical. So a
warmer than average lean for the winter season and rainfall
is probably going to be a wetter than the usual

(01:51):
winter for the upper half of the of the North Island.
So why Cooto Northland in Auckland likely to see odds
for a wetter, wetter than the usual winter and that
wetter than usual conditions could happen. Other parts of the
country are just a bit unsure. I think Canterbury gets
a normal winter in terms of rainfall. But look, it
doesn't mean that rainfall is a lumpey. You go through
dry spells and wet spells and when it all comes

(02:12):
out at the end of the day of the in
the wash, we thank near normal for the eastern part
of the South Island, but other parts of the country
will tilt wet, especially the upper part of the North Island.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
There we go, Chris Brandling, Now you a man of
quality over quantity.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thank you very much, much appreciated.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
All right, my friend,