The Country 28/10/25: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s resident weather expert on a Tuesday with some much-needed good news for farmers. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weather on the country with farmlands, with clothing to keep
you cool, dry and protected this summer.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, Phil Duncan wraps the country on a Tuesday, normally
on a Monday long weekend. I know most farmers didn't
get a break. Look, I'm not going to concentrate on
the weather we've had that's in the rare vision mirror
now or even for the next day or so. What
I want to concentrate on, Phil Duncan, if we can,
is the bigger picture, what's in front of us. Because

(00:29):
I think you've got some good news for our good
mate Blocker down there in Southland, arable farmer who says
that this spring in Southland, believe it or not, is
worse than the last one.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, give me Jamie. It's it's been a rough rough
spring for Southland and many parts of the country. But
you're right. Going into the end of this week thirty
first of October Friday, we've still got a southwesterly flow
over the country, but a big high pressure zone is
moving in and for November first, there'll be a high
pressure zone over the entire country, big one. It's going

(01:01):
to hang around to Sunday and Monday as well with
light winds and dry skies for the most part anyway,
and a complete change to what we've been in for
the last couple of months.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Now, that's wonderful news, absolutely be welcomed. But with the
big high setting over us and all the snow that's
on in the country, does that bring frost into play,
especially for some of our horticulture industry.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Frost and more likely tonight and tomorrow night, and as
we go through the week the air flow warms up
and comes further out of the Tasman Australia area and
then over the weekend, but of a subtropical lean to
it going into Sunday and Monday for some areas, both
top and bottom of the country. So it's going to
warm up. I don't see frost has been a real
problem this weekend, although we will double to get as

(01:43):
we go through, so keep up to date with our
frost mats that we've got. We're to watch, but the
forecast does look as though it's warming up. There are
bigger high pressure zones in the next for November. Not
done with the southern Ocean cold fronts and wind, but
we're going to have much more breathing space going into
the next month with these highs at times giving us

(02:03):
set or weather and also pushing away that polar boundary
to give us war more airflows.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hey, Phil duncan thank you very much for your time.