The Country 28/07/26: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

Monday’s resident weather man on Tuesday talks about a cold start to the week!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I really enjoyed Jim Crochet today. What a great artist.

(00:03):
Didn't he die in a plane crash? I think he did.
As we paid tribute to the late great Jim Hopkins.
Phil Duncan joins us. Now this song is I have
to say I love you in a song. I don't
know how I said. See, I do love you. You're
my favorite weather man normally on a Monday, but today
at Tuesday, we've been getting these reports from shocked North
Islanders about frost's crackers in Mount Monganui. Graham Smith, he's

(00:28):
having a rare break at work between his holidays. He's
been in a European eatway. He drove over from Mount
Monganui to Hamilton minus three in the white shadow fill.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, cold morning this morning. We have frost and Auckland
as well, and there's been some late frost up in
Northland over the last day or so. So yeah, we've
had some cold weather. More coming tonight. There'll be another frost,
especially for the North Island and inland parts of the
South Island. But as we go through to Thursday, the
northwester comes back, little lift up temperatures a wee bit

(01:02):
brings back the rain, but that's ahead of a cold burst,
possibly a colder one in some areas than what we've
just had, and that's going to deliver some snow on
Friday into both islands. And so the snow level isn't
yet locked in, but it does look like it might
go just a little bit lower than it did at
the weekend, So we might see a bit of snow
around Dunedin and Gore and up around the Central Plateau

(01:27):
as we go through Friday into a very cold.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Weekend, mind you Phillip's July so what.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, classic classic winter, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
And I'm sure the likes of the skifields would take it.
And of course what the frosts and the North Island
is actually very good for plants health.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean we've had a lack of frost of
the last few years, especially in the Upper North Island,
which you know does get frost from time to time.
This May, sorry, from May to June was quite mild.
Now we've switched gears and we really are seeing temperatures
that are more reminiscent of the past, you know, decades ago,

(02:03):
seeing these overnight lows getting down to minus fours and five.
So it's another cold night tonight and on Saturday with
the southerly blowing not overly wet, but the polar boundary
will be well north of the far North, so it's
going to go further northwards this weekend than the southerly
we had at the last weekend. So I think, yeah,
every ski field will get snow.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I was reading online a story about signs and Tom
Young talked about this and how it could affect the
meat industry. Signs of our Nino begin to appear in
our weather pattern.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they do. It is I mean, we're seeing a
lot more high pressure around Australia and we're on the
edge of it. That gives us a lot of southwesterly
when we're on the edge of the high pressure dredging
up colder air, but it also makes western areas cloudier.
One thing that's positive at the moment, we're getting lows
between the heights, so that is giving us variety. We've

(02:56):
got more of that as we go through the month
of August, so that is the positive at the moment.
And if we keep that variety with lows coming through
after the highs as we go into spring, we'll be
better off. But I do think over the next few
weeks monitoring where those highs are and where any dry
areas of developing or expanding. That will be a bit
of a telltale sign of what we're going into.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Fingers crossed. Hey Phil Duncan, thanks to you to I'm
always appreciate your efforts here on the country.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
My pleasure, Thanks Jamie, Phil.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Duncan from weather Watch. Yep, go and have a look
at his rural app. It's very very good, indeed,