1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Hilda. 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: I'm Chelsea Daniels and this is the Front Page, a 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 2: daily podcast presented by the New Zealand Herald. Winter has 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: come to an end, and it's been a wet last 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: few weeks. A burst of rain in August culminated in 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: flooding in Wellington and saturated days for the rest of us. 7 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 2: With us heading now into spring, the hope is that 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 2: with longer days fast approaching, we might start to see 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: some warmer weather again soon. For an outlook on weather 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 2: in the months ahead today on the front Page, we're 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 2: joined by Enzett Herald's science writer Jamie Morton. Jamie, how 12 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 2: typical was the weather this winter here in Auckland, for example? 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: It didn't really feel like we had that many particularly 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 2: cold days. 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, it has been a bit of an odd season 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 3: really actually to me, it feels like it's been a 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 3: lot longer than usual because we had what was the 18 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 3: coldest May in fifteen years. That was partly due to 19 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 3: a parting shop from our Nino really, But since then 20 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 3: it's been a really mixed bag and we've had some 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 3: torrential downpours around New Zealand, just mixed in with some 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: unseasonably warm weather in parts of the country like it 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 3: Hastings in June temperatures had like twenty five point seven degrees, 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 3: which was like a June record, and July went down 25 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 3: is the eighth warmest for New Zealand. For Auckland though, yeah, 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 3: it probably has been slightly warmer than usual, around half 27 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 3: a de agree to a degree above average, but that's 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: partly down to, you know, the nights having been a 29 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 3: lot colder over winter with those big high pressure systems 30 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: that have actually made for warmer days as well. And yeah, 31 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 3: like this month, certainly, I think there's probably been a 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 3: bit of a shift towards colder weather due to what's 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: been happening down in Antarctica. 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: Now, you know, we love getting new weather terms when 35 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: we get you on Jamie, And the last few weeks 36 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: of winter were marred a bit by sudden stratospheric warming event. 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: What was this and how did it play out? 38 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, so a fear bit of a cold and unsettled 39 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: weather it's been happening down south can actually be attributed 40 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 3: to this thing. And in recent times there's only been 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 3: sort of four observed times that this has actually happened 42 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 3: in our half of the planet. So what is it. Well, 43 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: it happens when the stratosphere high above Antarctica suddenly warms 44 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: up and the winds slow down dramatically. And what that does, 45 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: that's what you can call a polar heat wave. But 46 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: what it does is it disrupts the vortex over Antarctica. 47 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: And for New Zealand we have the suspects because it 48 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: misses with the polar jet stream that flows around the continent. 49 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 3: So when their jet stream gets more wavy and wobbly 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 3: and disrupted, that means it pushes further out into the 51 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 3: latitudes where New Zealand sometimes since and if you're in 52 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 3: the South Islands below of South Islands, those people would 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: have noticed it with a lot more of those sort 54 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: of pollo glasses that have been coming and you know, 55 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 3: bringing up that freezing with it. And for the rest 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 3: of us, it's made for you know, somewhat cooler temperatures 57 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 3: over this last few weeks. In Taranaki where I am 58 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 3: obvioertainly noticed it. 59 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 4: It is a windy, unsettled start to spring. Certainly we 60 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 4: are feeling that at the tail end of winter that's 61 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 4: going to continue into the early part of September, and 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 4: that's going to come with rain importantly, so for some 63 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 4: of the hydro lake areas and temperature swings. Temperature swings, 64 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 4: we've got air masses coming in from Australia that are 65 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 4: going to bring some warm days but also be followed 66 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 4: up by some cooler change through the first kind of 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 4: two three weeks of September, and then for the mid 68 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 4: to late stages of spring, we could see high pressure 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 4: developing around New Zealand shores. 70 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 2: I've noticed there's been some unseasonably warm temperatures over in 71 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: Australia for late winter. How does that tie into what 72 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: we've been seeing over here. 73 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, so right now the pressure set up around the 74 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: entire Southern hemisphere is pretty interesting. So just to start, 75 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 3: we were just talking the high pressure and the pole 76 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 3: of the stratosphere, and then to the southwest of New Zealand 77 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 3: we've been seeing this constant low pressure, these big masses 78 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: that have been basically coming and off the Tasman Sea, 79 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 3: grabbing onto you know, moisture from northerly flows and just 80 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 3: sending all that in the form of rain into the 81 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: west coast. And that's what has led to a lot 82 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 3: of those big deluges down in Wesley. But Australia is 83 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 3: interesting because not only has it been sort of feeling 84 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 3: the influence of this sudden stratispirit warning event as well, 85 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 3: it's also a large part of the continent has been 86 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: under what meteorologists call the heat dome of high pressure. 87 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 3: It's more or less over to this big, slow moving 88 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 3: system that's coming from the east, and it's been sort 89 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 3: of hovering over the most of the country and driving 90 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 3: up some pretty crazy to and sending a lot of 91 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: that warmth south. That's why, for instance, just the other 92 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 3: day and one out backtown in South Australia, you know, 93 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 3: a temperatures hit like forty degrees well, Western Australia and 94 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 3: Kimberley I think it was had a new all time 95 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 3: record for winter of forty one point six degrees on Tuesdays. 96 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 3: So yeah, a lot of that's to do with a 97 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: big high pressure heat down over Australia, but obviously also 98 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: climate changes in the mixto. 99 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: Looking ahead to spring, what's the outlook at this stage 100 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: for the months ahead. 101 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: The general upshot is that it's going to be a 102 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 3: bit of a rocky shift. I mean, I know we 103 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 3: always associate spring with rocky, unsettled weather, but this year 104 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 3: is going to be even more to that trend. So 105 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: for the early part of spring, we can expect more 106 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 3: of those sort of westerly flows that we've seen over 107 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 3: the last few weeks, which have been coming in off 108 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 3: the Tasman and bringing those rainy fronts into the West coast, 109 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 3: and some of those winds have the potential to be 110 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 3: quite strong over the next few weeks. I mean, right 111 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 3: now Met seven is watching for the possibility of some 112 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: of those westle is heading gale streets in parts of 113 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: New Zealand yea, And for the time being, we can 114 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 3: keep expecting to see the influence of that event happening 115 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 3: down in Antarctica, and also those lows to the southwest 116 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 3: coming in bringing that drizzly weather sometimes on the cooler side, 117 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: but on the east, places like Nature and Hastings can 118 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 3: expect more of that sort of weather where things are 119 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 3: almost sort of pushing it into November temperatures. So yeah, 120 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 3: it's a bit of a scrambled, messy picture, as it's 121 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 3: always as we go into spring, but this year, I 122 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 3: guess there's some interesting factors in the mix, some sort 123 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 3: of wild card factors. 124 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: Given the weather of recent weeks, how wet is it 125 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: predicted to be or we just don't know yet in terms. 126 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 3: Of how wet it's going to be. I think that 127 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 3: is going to owe a lot to you know, some 128 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 3: of those factors. We're just discussing what's going to happen 129 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: with those low pressure systems, and you forecasters are telling 130 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 3: me that, you know, the potential for variability is always 131 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: there at the moment, So that can mean that rain 132 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 3: is something that there's always a possibility of coming in. 133 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 3: And no doubt if those westerly flows constantly moving over 134 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 3: New Zealand for places especially on the west coast, that 135 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: always means the potential for lots of those rain makers 136 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: coming in. I mean where I am in Tartanaki. You know, 137 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: I got soaked dropping the kids off the sporting and 138 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 3: over this month it's just felt like NonStop rain down 139 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 3: to the South Island. 140 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: Though. 141 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 3: That's really good news because some of the southern hydro 142 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 3: likes have been running pretty dire and they've been getting 143 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 3: some good health and top ups of lots of this 144 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: rain coming in. So yeah, to answer your question, yeah, 145 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 3: a lot of it's going to come down to that 146 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 3: classic spring fariability, but also as we move later into 147 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 3: the season, I guess the big sort of question for 148 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: rain making will be what this much anticipated l ninya 149 00:07:58,880 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: clumate pattern means. 150 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 2: Well, last time we caught up on weather, La Ninia 151 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: was the one everyone was looking out for. Hey, what's 152 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: the latest thoughts on that. Does it seem like it 153 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: will actually form? 154 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we have talked about it a lot this year. 155 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 3: Meteorologists have been expecting Lanina to return most of the year, 156 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 3: and that is still widely expected to happen towards the 157 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 3: back end of spring. What's changed is it doesn't look 158 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 3: like it's going to be a particularly strong system. So 159 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: if we remember how crazy things got between twenty twenty 160 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: and twenty twenty three, when we had three Larnin years 161 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 3: in a row and you had like back to back 162 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 3: record warm winters and you had all that extreme with 163 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 3: the last summer, that's what we might think about when 164 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 3: we think of Larnina weather, you know, like constant northeast 165 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 3: of their flowers coming down from the tropics and just 166 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,239 Speaker 3: spoiling the holidays of you know, people in Auckland and coramandor. 167 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 3: The indications are for this system is it's not going 168 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 3: to be quite as strong as was earlier anticipate, which 169 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 3: might weaken its sort of usual signal. But I think 170 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 3: nonetheless that could change if we see a couple of 171 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 3: big bursts and trade winds in the Pacific. So yeah, 172 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 3: it is a few bit of uncertainty of the but 173 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 3: at this point probably not going to be as strong 174 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: as previous ones. 175 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 2: On the other side of the world, it's obviously been summer, 176 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: and once again record temperatures have been broken. July twenty 177 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: second has set the record as the hottest day on record, 178 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 2: breaking the previous record of July twenty first. 179 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 5: June marked thirteen consecutive months of record breaking heat across 180 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 5: the globe. Worldwide, the Earth's aair temperature was hotter over 181 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 5: the past year than ever before, and by over one 182 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 5: point five degrees celsius. 183 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: I worry is that these records will just be reported 184 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: like they are part of the Olympics, but not that 185 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: they actually mean that the human rights of a vast 186 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: majority of the people living on this planet are massively violated. 187 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: Are these soaring temperatures in the northern Hemisphere any signs 188 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 2: of what things could be like for summer for us? 189 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always the old question, isn't it. I think 190 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: calming our summer, we're going to have a different sort 191 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 3: of range of factors on the board, but some of 192 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 3: them are going to be the same. One is the 193 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: fact that you know, we have that background climate change. 194 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 3: So you know, for me, it was quite interesting looking 195 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: at London, for instance, twenty five degrees in June, which 196 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 3: was more what you'd see in the Barcelona at that 197 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 3: time of the year, and thirty degrees again last month, 198 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 3: which isn't unusual. But with climate change, the number of 199 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 3: days where it's happening is just increasing over time. So 200 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 3: for us, I think this summer we're going to see 201 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: some sort of similar effects in the fact that we 202 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 3: have you know, that background warming. But also we're likely 203 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 3: going to see marine heat waves kicking off again around 204 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: the country, and that was a big driving factor behind, 205 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 3: you know, some of those scorching temperatures we've seen in 206 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: the North over their summer. 207 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 2: What this is science saying at the moment around rising temperatures. 208 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 2: Have we made any progress or is it just getting worse? 209 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean, as you might recall, there's been 210 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,119 Speaker 3: lots of discussion over the last decade around that symbolock 211 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 3: one point five degree threshold, you know, so that's basically 212 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 3: an aspiration to halt global warming at one point five 213 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 3: degrees but of the pre industrial average. Sadly, we just 214 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 3: actually saw global temperatures exceed that for an entire year, 215 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 3: and a major study just came out the other day 216 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 3: suggesting that one point six degrees was actually the new 217 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 3: best case scenario that we might see. And right now, 218 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: the current emissions pathway puts us on upwards of two 219 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 3: and a half degrees warming by the end of the century. 220 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 3: And even though there's been progress, nations including New Zealand, 221 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 3: really need to do more here. And in terms of 222 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 3: you know, the effects the impacts that climate change is happening, well, 223 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 3: I think for Kiwi's it's probably not less surprise. And 224 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 3: given all the extreme weather we've seen over the last 225 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: decade that seven of the eighth hottest years actually all 226 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 3: happened here since twenty thirteen. 227 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 2: Any positive weather news we can wrap up on, Jamie, 228 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: or are we set for a humored, muggy end of 229 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: the year leading to summer and we're all just going 230 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 2: to have to deal with being hot all the time? Yeah? 231 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 3: Well, I think the good news for me is that 232 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 3: we now have less than a week of meteorological winter left. 233 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 3: So a friend of mine who's unattached and living here 234 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 3: in Santanaki tells me it's certainly the last New Zealand 235 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 3: winter that he's going to do for a couple of years. 236 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 3: But for everyone else, yeah, maybe the good news will 237 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: be some nice, warm temperatures. If you're on the East 238 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 3: coast and further out, there is the chance that Learninia 239 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 3: might actually bring us some favorable warm and nice weather 240 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 3: between October and November, so that's something to potentially look 241 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 3: forward to. 242 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, Jamie. That's it for this episode 243 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 2: of The Front Page. You can read more about today's 244 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: stories and extensive news coverage at enzet herold dot co 245 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 2: dot MZ. The Front Page is produced by Ethan Seles 246 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 2: with sound engineer Paddy Fox. I'm Chelsea Daniels. 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