The Country 07/07/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

We ask Monday’s resident weather expert if we are officially in the chilly depths of winter.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country with Phil Duncan from where the watch
Phil the week we're about to head into the second
week of July, is that traditionally the coldest week of
the year.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good afternoon, Very good question. Hello, Good to be with
you again. It depends on sort of how you look
at it, because if you look at geography training that
we had at school, or if you look at the records,
you would say that July and August of the two
coldest months. And yes, usually right now the middle of
July going into it anyway is the coldest time. But
I just wrote about this the other day and Farmers

(00:31):
Weekly that the actual cold snaps you get in each region,
they vary every year on what time they arrive, and
it's all to do with where the high pressure is.
So sometimes we can get our coldest part of the
year in autumn before we even get into winter. You
can get really heavy frost, and then all of a
sudden it's sort of windy and wet for the winter
months and doesn't get quite as cold. But to answer

(00:52):
your question very simply, as a nation, you would generally
say yes, around about now it is okay. Locally it
can be very differ.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Let's finish really quickly because there's a big high over
the country at the moment, settled for a few days,
then another cold front coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Is that it. Yeah, there's a huge amount of low
pressure south of Australia, so that's going to be really
affecting our whether by the time we get to the
end of the week. So big cold front moves and
Thursday Friday the usual stuff windy nordally is followed by
wendywesteres and a burst of rain. Those westeries are going
to be blowing through right into next week. Number of
lows passing through, so we're going into an unsettled phase.

(01:28):
But for some areas it may not feel like winter
because the western northerly winds can make it feel warmer.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, Fell Duncan. Thanks is always fair time, mate, You
enjoy the rest of your Monday, Fell Duncan. There from
weatherwatch dot co dot NZ, our leading weatherman in this country.
Unless I'm talking to Chris Brandolina, I've got to walk
a tight rope there with my weather man. They're all
good to be perfectly honest,