Rain and storm for Cpt

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wonder when this naaiers will lower the water tariffs or what will the excuse be now again?
 
Geoff.D said:
More rain as that system drifts slowly east and possibly also northwards. Flash flooding will happen.
Lots of that rain in catchment areas.
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Thank you. I didn't even notice the date and time. But it's anyway good to know for in future. Thanks.
 
Gordon_R said:
There are a handful of Black South Easters every season. They do not always develop into significant rainfall events over Cape Town itself, but there have certainly been several in recent years.
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Well, this is the first south easter with heavy rainfall over the south peninsula in at least 4-5 years that I'm aware of. I do travel so it's possible I may have missed one. Rain comes so consistently here with the northwester (and less commonly southwester) that you sit up and take notice when it occurs on a southeaster (which normally almost always brings clear skies). Over the last few years there hasn't been a drop of rain from October to May anyway so this is has been a very wet summer by comparison, which bodes quite well. Hopefully the drought is well and truly behind us (at least for now - everyone seems to forget that they're cyclical until the next one).
 
WAslayer said:
Eerm.. 0300 Monday morning was 6 1/2 hours ago.. :unsure:
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Cutoff-lows are generally slow moving, and this one is likely to remain in position for 24-36 hours (as I noted earlier). That gives the potential to produce persistent heavy rainfall over some places.

BTW, satellite times are GMT, which is 2 hours behind SA. The current chart (8am) looks rather similar, as the system slowly rotates.

Edit: Forgot to post satellite animation link: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/AIRMASS/SOUTHERNAFRICA/
 
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akescpt said:
wonder when this naaiers will lower the water tariffs or what will the excuse be now again?
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I'm guessing the current restriction (and associated tariff) will be in place until at least Spring.
 
Agent_Smith said:
I'm guessing the current restriction (and associated tariff) will be in place until at least Spring.
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The hydrological year runs until October, so no decision will be made before then. Even if the dams overflow, we have been 'burned' too badly, so Level 2 is probably the best we can hope for. IMO Level 1 and garden sprinkler irrigation with potable water is never going to be allowed again...
 
Easter is usually my marker for the rainy season. When summer officially goes bye bye. For me anyways.
 
akescpt said:
wonder when this naaiers will lower the water tariffs or what will the excuse be now again?
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Reduce tariffs and increase the water pressure. My dishwasher stopped working with this low pressure. The taps had their fancy reducers removed recently due to the poor flow.
 
naasier said:
Reduce tariffs and increase the water pressure. My dishwasher stopped working with this low pressure. The taps had their fancy reducers removed recently due to the poor flow.
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Unintended consequences hey. If the cycle is October you can be sure they will be milking us till that time.
 
naasier said:
Reduce tariffs and increase the water pressure. My dishwasher stopped working with this low pressure. The taps had their fancy reducers removed recently due to the poor flow.
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Ja all these water saving gimmicks bite back when mains water pressure is lowered. Next, we will find that it becomes an essential feature to install pressure pumps in all homes.
I never implemented these gimmicks, none of them. It is just as easy to train the household to only turn open the taps wide enough.
 
Widespread moderate to heavy rain over parts of the Western Cape up to 8am on Mon 11th:
http://www.weathersa.co.za/media/data/climate/nr_daily_rai.pdf

Highest include Tygerhoek 145mm(??), Riversdale 48mm, Franschhoek 43mm, Swellendam 39mm, Grabouw 35mm, Malmesbury 34mm, Porterville 33mm, Robertson 25mm, Stilbaai 25mm, Worcester 25mm, Ceres 24mm, Villiersdorp 23mm, Ladismith 22mm, Langebaan 21mm, Prince Albert (Little Karoo) 20mm, Cape Agulhas 19mm, Mossel Bay 19mm, Cape Point 18mm, Kirstenbosch 17mm, etc. Heavy rain also fell in several other provinces.
 
Geoff.D said:
Ja all these water saving gimmicks bite back when mains water pressure is lowered. Next, we will find that it becomes an essential feature to install pressure pumps in all homes.
I never implemented these gimmicks, none of them. It is just as easy to train the household to only turn open the taps wide enough.
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Hmmmmm something else to tax.
 
Gordon_R said:
Most of the pressure in the 'old' suburbs of Cape Town is provided by gravity (reservoirs are on the slopes of Table Mountain). I guess some politicians could try to tax gravity...
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Dude. Don’t give them ideas.
 
akescpt said:
wonder when this naaiers will lower the water tariffs or what will the excuse be now again?
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Tariffs never go down. That is why any "emergency" tariff increase is never an emergency but an excuse to hike a certain rate permanently.

Think about the concept of charging people more to use water during a water crisis, it simply does not make sense. You cannot charge someone more for something that does not exist. The only solution is to allow whatever limit and then to cut them off to the point it cannot be overused during the crisis.

Eskom is following the same approach on billing more for something that is apparently available in small quantities. What exactly is the idea of doing that ? Does it mean as long as you can afford to pay the higher rates it is OK to keep using as much power as you want because you can afford to pay for it ?

During an emergency such as power/water/etc. there is no positive outcome in hiking rates as deterrent because there will always be enough people who can afford whatever rate you throw at them and thus not helping the situation at all for the average person. If you enforce some sort of hardcap on usage, possibly daily usage, then you have an actual deterrent where no amount of money can work around it while the crisis is ongoing.

The moment the crisis is over we also do not have an every lasting hiked price due to emergency price hikes either.

Why is any of this so alien to those in charge of making these decisions ? It is not, the government love emergencies because it provides them levy increase scenarios that can buffer their already diminished bank accounts to run the government.
 
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