The Country 15/08/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

Earth Sciences New Zealand's principal scientist, with a weather forecast for the weekend and beyond.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris Brendolino from Earth Sciences, New Zealand. I still have
trouble getting the tongue around that formerly of New Chris.
We're enjoying a glorious die at the bottom of the
South Island today and to Nadan, how long will it last?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good day out of it? I think for the short answer, Look,
there'll be some rain that comes in for much of
the country. Looks like tomorrow. This will chiefly be I
guess tomorrow, late Tomorrow and to early Sunday. So for
the upper North Island, much of the North Island. In fact,
we'll see rain at least a period of rain this
weekend from the Bay of Plenty, Taraf at the Gisban, Northland,
Auckland and the Waikato, and some of that rain does

(00:37):
get into Hawks Bay, and also a bit of rain
probably toward Southland, Fjordland and toward your neck of the wood, Jimmy.
That looks to be probably Sunday evening into Monday morning,
a good drop of rain which will move into the
eastern South Island, so the eastern South Island, Canterbury, Marlborough,
you'll see some rain, looks like Monday, later Monday to Tuesday,
and that'll be with another I guess, puff of chili air,

(01:00):
huge high pressure coming in next week. Now, it will
turn colder for a few days. Next week, we're gonna
see temperatures warm up with that rain, so not as chili,
but a return to chili temperatures. It looks like probably
middle part of next week and beyond for at least
a few days, maybe not quite as cold, and then
the last week of August into early September, we are

(01:22):
going to see some visitors from the north. It looks
like was into a very active period to end the
month of August and winter meteorological winter for that matter,
and open up the books on spring. I should have
mentioned real quick. Noah in the United States has issued
a lat Ninia watch, so we'll be watching for the
potential of lat Nina to emerge in the tropical Pacific,

(01:44):
which we'll have flowing effects here. More than that, as
Tom evolves to hear the music, Time

Speaker 1 (01:48):
To go, so you might you have a good weekend,
Chris Brain, Delena