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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    Cold fronts pass south of CT 365 days of the year. When the South Atlantic High is dominant, they miss CT (sometimes becoming cutoff lows). When the SAH is weak of missing they can reach CT. It can rain any day of the year in CT. It can also snow any day of the year on the Drakensberg. Seasons...
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    Eskom wants to supply power to data centres and electric vehicles in South Africa

    Fools!? It's too late now, unless they want to give away power. Anyone with half a brain will either choose onsite solar, or a wheeling arrangement.
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    [KZN] SA Weather Service issues heavy rain warning

    October has been a rather odd month, and yet another series of cold fronts will eventually bring extremely cold conditions to the entire southern half of SA over the next 5 days. Early model runs showed snow over the Drakensberg, but this now seems less likely. This chart shows the predicted...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    Same today (and probably tomorrow). Lenticular clouds occur when moist semi-stable air passes over mountain ranges. In CT the wind from the west produces standing waves. There is insufficient moisture to produce rain (yet), so this can persist for many hours. P.S. When I see windscreen wipers...
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    Good news about 10-year driving licence card prices in South Africa

    Hey, some of us haven't had breakfast yet! It's hard to absorb the narrative implications of your visual metaphor, while staring at such a delicious image...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    This morning's SAWS ship synoptic chart (Thurs 15th) clearly shows the series of fronts passing CT, bringing cool westerly winds (not summer-like at all!) Only the 3rd one due on Sat 17th will bring any significant rain. The South Atlantic High will push in on Sun 18th, bringing very cold...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    I suggest you scroll up in this thread, I already posted twice on this page... https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/rain-and-storm-for-cpt-pt-2.1296127/post-34599210
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    Two cold fronts brushing past CT, before the big one later on Saturday:
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    WhatsApp plans to block people whose phones have not been updated

    Thanks, but I am fully aware of the difference between Google Play updates and Samsung updates. I had never seen that particular menu screen before. (It's an old phone, but new to me, so I checked every system menu at least once). I don't use Google Wallet, but many other updates do take place...
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    FlySafair prepares for possible driving licence ID ban

    Shhhh, don't come here with your Western Logic nonsense (/s).
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    Cancerous tumor removed from Pope Leo's lung, Vatican says

    Lung cancer can be nasty. I had a family member with the same scenario, small tumour caught early, lung lobe removed. All clear given. Dead 18 months later...
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    Man arrested in connection with Tupac Shakur murder in 1996

    AFAIK there were no living witnesses, apart from the perpetrator, who wrote a book about it...
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    FlySafair prepares for possible driving licence ID ban

    In theory your biometrics should now allow you to prove your identity if you lost both/all cards, but good luck getting it sorted at a bank branch/Home Affairs or whatever... Edit: Two decades ago my car was stolen, with my ID in the boot (in the days when drivers licences were inside ID...
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    WhatsApp plans to block people whose phones have not been updated

    Mine is a 2021 phone. It got 2 complete Android version updates, but the last security update was on 1 Mar 2025. No further security updates are available, even if I request manually. The WhatsApp site gives no idea what kinds of patches are needed, so its a huge guessing game at this stage...
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    Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

    Long-range forecasts show that the cold-front reaching CT on Sat 17th, will develop into a moderate intensity cutoff-low along the Eastern Cape coast on Sun 18th, and cold conditions will extend far inland by Mon 19th, bringing light snow to the Drakensberg and Lesotho:
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