The 'Massive' Gauteng Weather and Storm Warning Thread! The Sequel

[My_King]

Skys are a bit grumpy

 

[zerocool2009]

I can see lightning from Centurion…. To jozi!

And I washed today cars… just my luck

 

[B-1]

Seems like it will blow past to the west of us.

 

[Flanders]

Mein Gott im Himmel it's a scorcher today. Plants are wilting like the rain last weekend didn't happen.

 

[Werner1975]

Were are having a heat wave. Expect many of those this Summer

 

[Gordon_R]

Were are having a heat wave. Expect many of those this Summer

A well developed cold-front will pass over the southern half of SA this weekend, bringing substantially cooler temperatures to the eastern part by Mon 19th. However it will only bring limited relief to the far north-western parts of the country. This chart shows the likely daytime temperatures on Tues 20th:

 

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[B-1]

Next week looks interesting.

 

[Werner1975]

34 & 35 degrees??!! Eina.

 

[Gordon_R]

Next week looks interesting.

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That is the first time I have seen Beaufort wind scale referred to in a forecast:

5 Bft refers to Force 5 on the Beaufort Wind Scale, which is classified as a "Fresh Breeze."

 

[B-1]

That is the first time I have seen Beaufort wind scale referred to in a forecast:

Must have switched back to default on an update. Ive changed it back to km/h so I can understand it.

 

[Segg]

Sho, it's already very warm this morning

 

[Gordon_R]

Sho, it's already very warm this morning

Come back to Cape Town! A 20 degree temperature split across the country this weekend:

 

[geezer]

Sho, it's already very warm this morning

Very true, I finished both my water bottles during my early morning 64km cycling which started at 05:30.

 

[Segg]

Going to be a very dry weekend

Saturday



Sunday

 

[Flanders]

Going to be a very dry weekend

Saturday

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Sunday

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I was watching last night as some isolated cells popped up but were way to the E/SE over MP. Looks like we are going to need every drop we can get.

 

[White Guy]

Melty.

 

[Segg]

I was watching last night as some isolated cells popped up but were way to the E/SE over MP. Looks like we are going to need every drop we can get.

The funny thing is in the airport specific forecasts they've mentioned a 40% chance of hail for OR Tambo, which you don't see often at all. I assume due to the high temperatures if an isolated cell does pop up it's going to be relatively violent

 

[Heisenborg]

She's a tad hot today

 

[Gordon_R]

The funny thing is in the airport specific forecasts they've mentioned a 40% chance of hail for OR Tambo, which you don't see often at all. I assume due to the high temperatures if an isolated cell does pop up it's going to be relatively violent

Aviation forecasts have a different agenda, and not issued by the same people who do the TV weather forecasts. A low probability of a high consequence event is still worth mentioning, since a single storm cell needs to be avoided. This is unlike the situation on the ground (as mentioned above). The latest TAF for FAOR shows a very mixed outlook for this afternoon:

TEMPO 1712/1719 -TSGSRA FEW050CB

denoting a thunderstorm with precipitation of snow pellets/small hail and rain