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Listen to The Country online: Weather update with NIWA’s Chris Brandolino

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NIWA principal scientist Chris Brandolino gave The Country's Jamie Mackay a weather update today. Photo / 123rf

NIWA principal scientist Chris Brandolino gave The Country's Jamie Mackay a weather update today. Photo / 123rf

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with NIWA principal scientist Chris Brandolino, to get a weather update and to find out if there’s any end insight for the big dry.

On with the show:

Chris Brandolino:

We ask NIWA’s weather guy if there’s any end in sight to the big dry.


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Emma Poole and Tim Dangen:

The Dangen Zone Panel discusses the dry conditions in the upper North Island, Fonterra’s low emissions payment incentives, and the latest farmer confidence survey.


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Chris Russell:

Our Australian correspondent talks about running out of eggs, Tinder for cattle and the Queensland teacher who got sacked for identifying as a cat.

Jeremy Rookes:

We let our Lifestyle farming correspondent off the chain and take no responsibility for what he says.

Barry Soper:

Our political correspondent wraps the week as we lament school children identifying as “furries”.

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