Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: Niwa’s Chris Brandolino on US and NZ weather

On The Country today, Niwa's Chris Brandolino updated Jamie Mackay on a dry Hawke's Bay and North Canterbury, a wet Southland, and a hurricane in Florida. File photo / George Heard

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Niwa’s principal scientist Chris Brandolino, for an update on Hurricane Milton in the US and the wet and dry weather in New Zealand.

On with the show:

Chris Brandolino:

Niwa’s principal weather scientist, and Native New Yorker, talks about Hurricane Milton in Florida, the wet in Southland and the dry in North Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay.

Kathryn Wright:

This Southland-based rural mental health counsellor is also part of the way through her PhD on the effects of carbon farming on the social fabric of rural communities. Her findings, thus far, make for sobering reading.

Ben Picton:

The Sydney-based Rabobank economist comments on Wednesday’s 50 basis point drop in the OCR. But the big question is what will the Reserve Bank do on November 27? And should farmers fix their mortgage now or ride the floating train downwards?

Stu Loe: 

In the absence of Stu Duncan, today’s farmer panel comprises just one, and he’s in a very dry North Canterbury.

Warwick Catto: 

We wrap the show with the 1995 Young Farmer of the Year.

Listen below: