The Country 20/10/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

There’s another wild, wet and windy week in store as we head towards the windiest weekend of the year - Labour Weekend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weather on the country with farmlands helping you score some
winds this summer. Here, thank you Farmlands. Big Phil Duncan
joins us from weather Watch. Gee, we've got a let
me refer to my notes because I've prescripted something here
another wild, wet and windy weekend store as we head

(00:21):
towards the windiest weekend of the year, or traditionally it
is labor weekend. Phil Duncan, Good afternoon. Here's some of
the texts that have come in from our new text
machine that I can't work. Twenty seven degrees here in
Hawk's Bay today with thirty on the forecast for later
in the week. Great conditions to grow apples, except rocket.
That's a reference to ye rocket falling over, which is

(00:44):
a bit of a shame. And New Harker are beautiful,
warm but windy here I'm putting on more sunscreen. Beautiful
day in Winchester from Laura and Winchester's of course in Canterbury.
Beautiful day here in the middle or two no rain
or wind cracker day in Northland, Horrible weather in Tiano,

(01:05):
which is of course in Southland. And twenty five degrees
in Napier from n Right he Oh it's awful. We
spoke to a south and farmer Pete Turner a bit
earlier in the show that I've had horrendous amounts of
rain and it's blowing its backside off here in Dunedin.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, and you know that it's unfortunate as you're reading
out those temperatures, you know, summer like temperatures now starting
to pop up around the North Island. Pretty mild in
Canterbury as well for the most part. But yeah, Otago,
Southland and southern parts of Westland pretty miserable. Temperatures still
in the single digits right now at this time of
the day. Where you got other parts of the country,
you know, twenty five to twenty seven, that polar air

(01:43):
boundary kind of hangs around this week, really big storms
coming through and in fact there could be a low
on Thursday right near the Catlands down in the southeast
of the South Island of nine seventy hecta pascals, and
then you've got high pressure just up around the far North,
so that a big air pressure gradient drop over the country.
So severe gales are often on this week coming through

(02:06):
again tomorrow, peaking again on Thursday. They might be the
strongest on Thursday, with that storm tracking by, and also
between now and Thursday, over four hundred millimeters of rain
in parts of the West coast. It's mostly the southern half,
but you could be seeing heavy rain around Hocketika and
up towards Greymouth, so they're very wet where that carries on. Well,

(02:26):
if you're on the East coast right near the sea
north of Dunedin up to Gasbin, for example, very little
in the way of rain coming as around Northland and
parts of Auckland as well.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well. This is an intense where the system. Certainly where
I am and I'm reading from the Met Service Phil,
sorry to throw another weather forecasts are at you. No, no,
that's all right. But the Met Service is saying a
more intense system on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, Thursday. This is a big stormy system on Thursday.
I think you'll suddenly see a big ramping up in
the weather warnings and the conversations about it the next day,
because at this time of year, you can see a
storm in the weather maps and then you have a
look a day later or two days later and it's
kind of gone because everything's so chaotic. But this does
look like a significant storm, very fast moving being caught

(03:13):
up in these gales. So there's a positive and the
long weekend is looking kind of, you know, pretty good,
I had said, did say my video today. If you're
in Southland you might have to take a bit of
a drive Northwoods to get out of the wintry stuff
that you're still going to be in going into the
weekend unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, Hey, I've got a text from your old mate
Blocker Drysdale. I know you chat to him a bit.
He's an arable farmer down there in Southland. He said,
it's absolutely appalling. He said he didn't think he would
have to face two shocking springs in a row, because
I think most Southland farmers thought it can't be any
worse than last season. But it's getting close.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, you know, there was Antarctica the South Pole having
I think it's coldest lowest temperature and since the nineteen eighties,
and you're seeing the pole of vortex all messy around
the south of New Zealand. And that's why the pole
is bursting out into Australia into Southern Zealand, hanging around longer.
Spring is hanging around longer this year. But those windy westerlies,

(04:08):
you know, that's why the temperatures are roaring up in
the North Island. So some area is going to dry
up very fast. Southband might have to wait a little
longer for that to happen further south obviously.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Phil Duncan wrapping the country