It's storming like crazy in Cape Town

[Archer]

25mm of rain in Stellenbosch overnight

Not a RealStorm™ according to the northern folk

 

[Craig_]

25mm of rain in Stellenbosch overnight

And it's still raining. And finally cooling down. I really love this weather and wouldn't mind if it rains like this non stop for the next week or two.

 

[mercurial]

And it's still raining. And finally cooling down. I really love this weather and wouldn't mind if it rains like this non stop for the next week or two.

I would love it to rain throughout summer.

 

[I.am.Sam]

this is durban weather , hot days with rain

the smell is the same as well

 

[konfab]

I would love it to rain throughout summer.

That would be fantastic, although I think the highveld people would sue us for expropriation without compensation.

 

[dadecoza]

Some hectic wind in the CBD today.

 

[mercurial]

Some hectic wind in the CBD today.

Since yesterday, bru.

 

[Stickfigure]

That time of the year. No letting up until April next year

 

[chefdude98]

The wind is driving me crazy.It has been hectic since last night.

Can you provide any tips while driving under extremely windy conditions?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

The wind is driving me crazy.It has been hectic since last night.

Can you provide any tips while driving under extremely windy conditions?

Don't drive too fast. Drive a very flat car

 

[Geoff.D]

The wind is driving me crazy.It has been hectic since last night.

Can you provide any tips while driving under extremely windy conditions?

Don't drive VW beetle!

If you don't like the wind, don't live in Cape Town or PE.

 

[genetic]

Can you provide any tips while driving under extremely windy conditions?

Drive carefully.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Don't drive VW beetle!

Try a mini bus.

 

[SaiyanZ]

Video I found of the storm coming in this evening.

I was watching it from our loft room.Was crazy to see.

[video=youtube;fS6PYZYaeOE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6PYZYaeOE[/video]

Those are not storm clouds. It's just the mist/fog that comes in sometimes from the ocean.

 

[mercurial]

Wow, this wind is still going strong. Crazy.

 

[dadecoza]

Wow, this wind is still going strong. Crazy.

Yesterday my colleagues parked motorcycle got blown over.

 

[bromster]

So it's hailing in the Southern Suburbs... I didn't even know that happened here...

Only babies, 5-6mm across but still...

 

[Gordon_R]

So it's hailing in the Southern Suburbs... I didn't even know that happened here...

Only babies, 5-6mm across but still...

Any sufficiently large convective cloud can produce hail. In Cape Town that tends to be in the tail of a cold-front (like today), where a trough of cold upper air produces instability (surface temperatures are low). This is the opposite of the summer rainfall area, where surface heating produces the instability.

P.S. We had a few seconds of slush in Kenilworth. Light snow is possible on the highest mountains in the SW-Cape (quite late in the spring season).

 

[bromster]

Any sufficiently large convective cloud can produce hail. In Cape Town that tends to be in the tail of a cold-front (like today), where a trough of cold upper air produces instability (surface temperatures are low). This is the opposite of the summer rainfall area, where surface heating produces the instability.

P.S. We had a few seconds of slush in Kenilworth. Light snow is possible on the highest mountains in the SW-Cape (quite late in the spring season).

Cool. It was just surprising and my first time seeing hail here. I suppose it would be most likely here on the leeward side of the mountain too with the added orographic lift.

 

[AchmatK]

Some thunder and lightning and hail in Somerset west