Papa Mike McRoberts
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1,801 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Papa Mike McRoberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's crazy.
Wow.
Yeah, and I did get a room upgrade.
Um okay.
Let's move on to the weather.
Yes, I'm keen to hear about this.
So we have two, and I I I I was I thought about this because I heard a report last week that, you know, the Canterbury region ex is expecting quite possibly the worst drought on record.
And that's because we have uh an El Nino weather pattern uh coming to in fact it's already started.
It started in July.
And you've probably heard uh these two weather patterns talked about El Nino and El Niña.
So the two
Two Spanish words.
El Niño means boy, El Niño means girl.
And uh the first time that was ever referenced around this weather pattern was by Peruvian sailors who noticed that the the water was getting warmer around Christmas time and it had a westerly uh prev prevailing wind.
And so um so they named it El Niño, the boy after the baby Jesus.
You know, and so and then the opposite, the easterly wind with the calling weather.
Uh was named El Niña.
So we have El Nino in and El Niña in Altiroa and what it means for us when there's an El Niño um weather pattern is that we get those westerly winds and you kind of have two summers or two different types of summers in the one country.
If you're on the west, you're gonna get uh because it's picking up that warm water, uh you're gonna get a lot of rainfall on the west coast of of the country.
But
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