The Country 22/09/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

We ask Monday's resident weatherman whether the spring equinox will herald a change in our fortunes.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wrapping the country with Phil Duncan from weather Watch. Tomorrow's
six nineteen AM is the spring equinox, Phil, what does
that mean for the weather? Hopefully it calms the farmer
wee bit.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, you'd hope so, but you might have to wait
a couple more weeks for that to kind of do
its thing and balance the wind out. Basically means we've
got equal lengths day and night at the moment, and
the sun will rise pretty much due east and set
due west. Over the next couple of weeks, you'll start
to notice it. It becomes like the days become longer
because in this month we gain twenty minutes more daylight

(00:34):
each and every week. So by the end of September
we've got one hour more of sunlight than we did
at the start of the month. So this is a
month that you really notice it all happening. And tomorrow
is kind of the official end of winter and the
official start to summer.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, wet and kind of windy in the west, getting
a bit dry in the east. That pattern continues.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, it does. I mean we've got some rain coming
through over the next couple of days. It's a very
weak area of low pressure crossing New Zealand and rain
around the North Island and also the West Coast and
southern parts of the South Island. But if you live
in the east, places like Hawks Bay, Wided, Upper Canterbury, Marlborough,
you may not see a huge amount of rain coming

(01:12):
on through, although Marlboro and Nelson do have a chance
of some rain over the next couple of days with
a subtropical wind and normally is coming through. But by
the time we get to Thursday, our friend the windy
westerly returns and basically hangs around right through the weekend,
with the South Island and Cook Straight looking to be
the windyest as we go through Friday and probably again

(01:33):
on Sunday as well, with the chance of isolated power
outages not as widespread as we just had over the weekend,
but those those wind damage risks are certainly there going
into the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Basically more of the same. Phil. Of course, I haven't
even got time to ask you about Eden Park on
saturdayl keeping the power to drive. Phil Duncan there from
weather Watch, New Zealand's leading weather main just ask him.
He does a great job. Weatherwatch dot co dot Nz