The Country 31/07/26: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay

“Friday’s Weather Guy” has a long-range forecast for spring.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyhow, let's quickly go to the sky because he's at
a conference. He's got maximum of three minutes with us.
Chris Breandolino from Earth Science. As New Zealand, you've released
your updated long range forecast where there's not flesh at
the moment. What are we looking forward to over the
next three months.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, let's start with the next three days or so, Jamie,
it's going to be cold. We have a good old
fashioned cold snap come. It's going to be some really
cold temperatures for the next couple of days, so many
areas across the South Island will be near below zero
and a cold weather we'll extend into the North Island
as well. So something to keep in mind o calving
underway across the upper North Island and as we moved

(00:35):
through next week, we'll probably see another cold snap coming
sometime middle part of next week with another round of
Chile temperatures. So the start of this three month outlook
is going to be on a cold one and relatively
dry one. Now, the outlook basically for the next three
months is that temperatures in spite of this cold snap,
over the next week or so, we're going to have
temperatures either average or above average for much of the country.

(00:59):
One area that may buck that trend is perhaps the
eastern south eastern Northound, a vank of pardon perhaps near
average temperatures. So while there will be cold snaps, who
we get them, it's winter and even into early spring,
the theme will be probably average or above average for
months of the country temperature wise. Now, rainfall wetness we're
going to have to be concerned with for the western
and lower Southound, so for the west coast Jamie down

(01:19):
to the Southland, perhaps even far western central Otago, that
is where we're expecting wetter than usual conditions. You combine
that with our expected increase in frequency and intensity of
wind as we get into the spring season, which is September.
Of course, that could create some issues in it for
exposure for lambs and calves on that part of the country.
It's dryness we're concerned about for many other areas of

(01:41):
New Zealand, particularly the Upper North Island for the next
three months, as well as the eastern parts of both islands.
So the effects of Alminio Jamie were expected them to
start to become more profound and noticeable as we progress
through the spring season. Keeping in mind it's still July
thirty first, so spring is not arey, I get another
five weeks of winter, So again this is the direct
travel over the next several weeks and months.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, look, thank you very much for the heads up,
and thanks for stepping out of that conference to chat
to us.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Absolutely, Jamie, you have a great weekend, buddy,