Are wrapping the country for a Tuesday with Monday's weather expert, Pell Duncan. Five years ago today, just cinder locked this down. It was a bit of a happy time for me in some ways. The first lockdown. We were deemed essential workers here on the wireless and got to come in every day and break the shackles from home, and a lot of people got cabin fever at home. What about you, Yeah, it was.

Are wrapping the country for a Tuesday with Monday's weather expert, Pell Duncan. Five years ago today, just cinder locked this down. It was a bit of a happy time for me in some ways. The first lockdown. We were deemed essential workers here on the wireless and got to come in every day and break the shackles from home, and a lot of people got cabin fever at home. What about you, Yeah, it was.

The weather was kind of like it is at the moment for the top of the North Island. It was sunny, warm, and yeah, sort of it felt like school had been canceled. It felt like, sort of like nothing felt normal anymore, and it was sort of like an extended holiday, even though as a weather forecaster I had to put on a shirt and a suit every day to do a weather video.

The weather was kind of like it is at the moment for the top of the North Island. It was sunny, warm, and yeah, sort of it felt like school had been canceled. It felt like, sort of like nothing felt normal anymore, and it was sort of like an extended holiday, even though as a weather forecaster I had to put on a shirt and a suit every day to do a weather video.

Well, there's no afel. There's no rest for weather men. There's no rest for farmers either, the primary sector. It kept going. The wheels of industry kept turning during lockdown. Look, very briefly, what do you got for the dry parts, especially of the North Island.

Well, there's no afel. There's no rest for weather men. There's no rest for farmers either, the primary sector. It kept going. The wheels of industry kept turning during lockdown. Look, very briefly, what do you got for the dry parts, especially of the North Island.

So we've got a cold front coming in this week, kicks in late Wednesday night comes in really properly Thursday as it moves up the South Island, and big temperature drop for the southern half of the South Island several degrees colder and in fact over ten degrees colder than some places were at the end of last week. But that system falls apart on Friday as it moves into the North Island, so there will be some showers, patchy kind of rain around the North Island on Friday. Then we're back to high pressure for the rest of the month. Keep in mind the month is only six days left, so in April, hopefully we'll get some gaps in the highs, start getting a chance of some rain coming through.

So we've got a cold front coming in this week, kicks in late Wednesday night comes in really properly Thursday as it moves up the South Island, and big temperature drop for the southern half of the South Island several degrees colder and in fact over ten degrees colder than some places were at the end of last week. But that system falls apart on Friday as it moves into the North Island, so there will be some showers, patchy kind of rain around the North Island on Friday. Then we're back to high pressure for the rest of the month. Keep in mind the month is only six days left, so in April, hopefully we'll get some gaps in the highs, start getting a chance of some rain coming through.

Yeah. Do you see that change in the weather pattern happening though, or is this just wishful thinking?

Yeah. Do you see that change in the weather pattern happening though, or is this just wishful thinking?

The high pressure belt is still coming out from south of Australia, so that is still in the mix. But we are seeing a break in that high pressure belt at the start of April. Whether or not that break occurs over New Zealand or further out over the Tasman in Australia, that's part can't quite lock in it. But there's a whole lot of rain coming out of Australia, huge amount of rain coming to Queensland over the next week, and an ocean also looking really stormy for the start of April, so we just need the hy to break apart at the right time. Over US, I think next week I'll be able to be a bit lot more detailed about how we're looking.

The high pressure belt is still coming out from south of Australia, so that is still in the mix. But we are seeing a break in that high pressure belt at the start of April. Whether or not that break occurs over New Zealand or further out over the Tasman in Australia, that's part can't quite lock in it. But there's a whole lot of rain coming out of Australia, huge amount of rain coming to Queensland over the next week, and an ocean also looking really stormy for the start of April, so we just need the hy to break apart at the right time. Over US, I think next week I'll be able to be a bit lot more detailed about how we're looking.

They might okay, Phil, thanks as always for your time. I appreciated apologies for being a day late, but you never let us down. All good, no worries, Phil Duncan. They're from weather Watch.

They might okay, Phil, thanks as always for your time. I appreciated apologies for being a day late, but you never let us down. All good, no worries, Phil Duncan. They're from weather Watch.