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13th August
On TVNZ, Dan warns of an impending polar blast [42s in]:
Think of it like a layer of treacle that is oozing down from the poles.
15th August
Dan was interviewed about the snow in Wellington by the New Zealand Herald. Here's the video on their website.
Loved the clips of kids sledging on a light dusting of snow.
He also features on a couple more TVNZ videos. First up; Breakfast:
You have to almost think of these polar outbreaks ... like having a layer of treacle that sits at the top of the poles and somebody just gives it a bit of a nudge and it just starts to ooze. In this case, instead of it oozing it's just gone, brrr, straight across much of New Zealand.
Surges of moisture:
Like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
You can't always say we're done with winter until the fat lady sings.
Next, Close Up:
Dan explains what graupel is:
Anyone out with maybe a magnifying glass would've looked at it [gestures doing so - see pic], it didn't have the lovely pretty shapes.
Presenter Mark Sainsbury mentions that Dan has come from the Beeb.
Dan: I've only been in the country for about six to eight weeks so people said when I first arrived the weather was fairly quiet. So literally, I've been here six, eight weeks and to have the outbreak we had in July and now the one in August and people today were tapping me on the shoulder and saying, 'is it something you've brought with you?'.
Jim Hickey [TV One forecaster]: I'm gonna get you re-orientated Daniel, because when we had the last outbreak you mentioned, and I like the turn of phrase, you talked about this cold snap being like treacle oozing, he said oozing down from the pole, and I'm thinking, 'are you still in the northern hemisphere?' we talk about it oozing up in this part of the world, so get yourself sorted will you mate.
Is it just me, or does he do it again moments later?
Dan: The polar vortex [cups hands together as if holding an invisible cup] which is that area of cold air that sits above the poles, I use the analogy to think of it as a layer of treacle, it just sits there and most of the time it's pretty happy just sort of wobbling around. But just imagine giving it a bit of a shove and it just weakens the edge of it and if you vice it enough of a shove and it just starts to ooze towards areas to the south.
Mark: Daniel, tomorrow, where would you not want to be?
Dan: Well, that depends, Mark. Would I want to be building a snowman or would I want to be sitting in my t-shirt and shorts?
Mark: Who is going to be hit the hardest?
Dan: Well, it's not going to be a picnic for anyone.
It's not a picnic by any means. It's going to be an icy blast but I think we'll all say let's put a big check [ticks] next to Thursday or Friday on the calendar and we'll say when they come we'll all have smiles on our faces because we can kick the polar blast out the back door and say goodbye to it.
Dan also appears on this 3 News video [1 minute in] about the record-breaking weather:
The way it's been going you'll probably need long lists and pieces of paper in the sense of not only snow amounts and places that haven't seen snow for a long time.
Finally, Dan talks to Marcus Lush on Radio Live. Speaking of weather systems:
There are several more, almost like buses lined up in a queue waiting to pull into a bus station, they just keep coming.
16th August
Dan talks to Marcus Lush on Radio Live again:
You almost think of a bicycle wheel, you have spokes on the bicycle wheel. This weather system, instead of it just being one big lump or one spoke, it's been several spokes or areas of moisture.
The high pressure which has been sitting, waiting, saying 'come on, give me a chance' it finally builds in and sort of slowly kicks the backside of this nasty weather system out of the way.
17th August
Peter Gibbs tweets:
Just had chat with ex colleague Dan Corbett on 5Live, now in New Zealand. Threatening to send him back cos he's brought British weather.
Many thanks to my lovely friend, Heather, for the recording his appearance on 5Live's Up All Night for me.
The funny thing is, since I've been here, about two months or so, they've actually said, 'our weather was fine until you arrived.'
What's a polar outbreak?
It's just an oozing layer of treacle, the cold air.
You can imagine everyone just sort of dressed like the Abominable Snowman.
Describing a block:
You take a car and it just sort of sits there, it spins its wheels in the sand or the mud and it doesn't move.
18th August
Powder Watch
Ridge of high pressure builds in, settles things down, it takes this weather system and just gives it a boot out the back door [does he gesture doing so?].
If you're going with the neighbours maybe skiing or they say they're going, yeah, they'll have a good time.
Bear in mind extra layers, particularly when you're sitting on that lift if you're going up you'll be [huddles] a-he! Very cold as you finish off.
So you're going skiing, you're already thinking, maybe licking your chops.
19th August
Weekend Weather
At least you won't be like that [touches head] with the hat.
Crunchy, cold, frosty [steps].
Temperatures overnight will go, chmmm, straight down.
Another cold, frosty night, great night for a fire.
Temperatures will finally recover so you'll start peeling off those abominable snowman layers [gestures doing so].
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