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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    The preliminary cold-front is the weakest that I can recall, with hardly any wind, and just light drizzle starting around 4:30pm in Kenilworth (Sat 8th). What comes behind is the interesting part, with a cold-core upper trough likely to bring showers and light snow early tomorrow (Sun 9th). A...
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    The 'Massive' Gauteng Weather and Storm Warning Thread! The Sequel

    The satellite photo only shows the clouds that have already formed. The preliminary cold-front is actually rather weak. What comes next is much more powerful, but harder to see. A large trough of cold upper air is pushing in behind the front, and will extend over most of SA by Mon 10th. Then we...
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    Improving home Wi-Fi performance for free

    For someone living in a reinforced concrete building, using the lower 2.4GHz band will be better than 5GHz, since higher frequencies are blocked by solid walls. It also depends on how congested the channels are. Test. Don't assume...
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    Lies about Cape Town data centre water usage

    This whole article is nonsense, because the recent court case was about zoning of the land, not actual construction plans, so there is plenty of time to object (again). In the previous thread I mentioned that there is a wastewater treatment plant in that area. Plenty of non-potable water...
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    Lies about Cape Town data centre water usage

    That's the whole point of journalism (/s). Publish the sensational side of the story. The next day publish a retraction. Twice as many clicks. Win bigly...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    That was posted yesterday (Thurs 6th). The models have changed significantly since then. Still rain and snow in the southern half of SA, but much less in the central interior. The exact details are still not clear, and for a cutoff-low more than 3 days outlook is quite far ahead. The outlook...
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    Saudi giant eyes Cape Town port

    There is a one word answer to your rhetorical question:
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    South Africa’s oldest food producer under fire for plans to shut down critical factory

    IMO shipping canned fruit halfway around the world makes little sense, since it has a multi-year shelf-life. Fresh/refrigerated produce yes, but that's a seasonal thing between hemispheres...
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    Managers of municipalities in South Africa now get a R2,500 mobile phone and data allowance

    This is a situation where some punctuation could make a big difference:
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    Saudi giant eyes Cape Town port

    A photo of the V&A Waterfront accompanies every story about CT. The article is about something different: From Google:
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    By the time the Cableway is ready for reopening, the weather will not be so nice, and the South Easter season starts soon...
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    Climate change: World's hottest day since records began

    Hurricanes require sea surface temperatures of 26C+ to form. This is one of the reasons they never occur in the South Atlantic, but do in the North Atlantic. The waters around SA are mostly far below those thresholds:
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    Climate change: World's hottest day since records began

    I didn't know sea surface temperatures (open ocean) could go above 29C! Learn something new... Google says 30-31C:
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    Noted. The weekend event looks more like a cutoff low, CT may get close to zero rain (just the cold and wind). Edit: It definitely rained earlier, plenty of streams, puddles, etc. Second time this year I have worn my gumboots. Edit: The SAWS reports a few moderately heavy rainfall numbers for...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    That is entirely consistent with everything I have been posting in this thread. Not sure what you are complaining about: 1. Thursday morning cold front. 2. Sunday into Monday cold front transitioning into a widespread cutoff low. Edit: The latest charts for the next 3 days, and 4-6 days, show...
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