Rain and storm for Cpt pt 2

notayoba said:
New semigrants: Lives in a place originally called 'The Cape of storms'.

Wonders what is this phenomena outside my window? is it unusual?, must be a once off. Maybe a cyclone

Edit: Typed on my battery powered laptop, due to a power line blown over.
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Then again, I learned about the Cape of Storms as well as Jan van Riebeck from history in primary school, many years ago. I doubt todays curriculum covers the white man landing in the Cape in the same way :)
 
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Jet-Fighter7700 said:
its certainly earned its place now, although even the people born here think this weather isn't the usual insanity
its a completly unique and different level of insanity,
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I'm not so sure. I Lived in CTN 20 years ago.
Things I've seen with my own eyes:

Small hatchback blown over while parked near the Good hope center.
Window with frame and all ripped out of the walls at my office (in Safmarine building. The one with the pyramid on top)
Those blue overhead highway signs tear away from the steel bolts. Takes some force to tear steel.

Now I live in the mild climate of the Garden route. Which wasn't so mild last week.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
this is not normal, it cannot be normal like just another CPT winter day, I dont care how insane the weather is normally.
something freaky has happened here, cyclone most likely that somehow made it this far south.

not supposed to happen, but then again, climate change is real.
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965 hpa Low pressure system north of the 40deg South latitude is all.

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Jet-Fighter7700 said:
what if it had made landfall? you cant tell me that isnt a cyclone with an eye and everything
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It did make landfall.. when systems like these make landfall, they are interrupted, things change a bit so it no longer looks the same in charts and models as the rest over the ocean does..
 
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STORM UPDATE: Lots of fallen trees and downed power lines across the metro, as well as lots of localised flooding. Various City teams from Parks, Energy and Stormwater are responding methodically to all of them. Many issues have been cleared already.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
what if it had made landfall? you cant tell me that isnt a cyclone with an eye and everything
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Its not a cyclone 😉

Cyclones are warm fronts, this is a cold front. Its like the opposite of a cyclone... but equally as bad.

Cold fronts don't have an eye - as far as I know. We did have a brief gap between fronts yesterday though.
 
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HAZARD – SIMON’S TOWN STATION AREA
Falling and windblown branches near Simon’s Town Station have already damaged at least one vehicle, resulting in a broken windscreen.
Exercise extreme caution in the area – do not park under trees. The incident pictured occurred this morning on the M5.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
what if it had made landfall? you cant tell me that isnt a cyclone with an eye and everything
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A cold-front is a type of cyclone (a rotating weather system). Specifically it is a mid-latitude storm, rather than a tropical-storm. All mid-latitude storms circle the globe from west to east. They do not randomly wander around, and do not make landfall by travelling from south to north. Even last week's cutoff-low exited to the east, following the same trajectory.
 
satanboy said:
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Not all, but some schools are closed in the Western Cape. Having had a look at my son's grade Whatsapp group, the parents prostested hard against sending their kids to school. Some had more time laying it in thick that those sent to school today may not be educated otherwise their kids will be behind. Odd, odd, odd...

My town had been hit hard, ignoring the rain, but the wind storm we had during the pandemic caused more damage in my town. Basic services here seem to be holding up. No electricity cuts, no water cuts, etc.

Almost nobody is answering me on email or DM today, so I assume some are still in bed.

Anyhow, it is WCED that determines via other departments whether schools should be closed in the Western Cape. I know that some schools in the Boland received notice.
 
Gordon_R said:
A cold-front is a type of cyclone (a rotating weather system). Specifically it is a mid-latitude storm, rather than a tropical-storm. All mid-latitude storms circle the globe from west to east. They do not randomly wander around, and do not make landfall by travelling from south to north. Even last week's cutoff-low exited to the east, following the same trajectory.
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so this is just severe weather, for this time of year, nothing to see here?
something feels off about this, the driving rain the crazy winds,

maybe I haven't lived down here in CPT long enough but to me this seems super unusual.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
hence my point if CPT had more runways maybe it was possible to fly in this weather
I mean a typhoon is 10 times worse than this.
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It makes no sense to spend a billion rand to construct a new runway needed on one day per decade. The dominant winds in CT are NW and SE. Very rarely are strong crosswinds a factor.
 
Gordon_R said:
It makes no sense to spend a billion rand to construct a new runway needed on one day per decade. The dominant winds in CT are NW and SE. Very rarely are strong crosswinds a factor.
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but there is only 1 runway for a major city, sure you might build a new airport and tell people go there,
but the benefits outweigh the costs IMO.
 
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