Rain and storm for Cpt

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After a sunny start this morning, conditions changed quite rapidly, with rain starting around 4pm. We had quite heavy falls until about 6pm, with 15mm in our gauge in Kenilworth.

It is a bit quieter now, but further showers are likely overnight and early on Sunday. A change in wind direction will bring much colder conditions with snow over the high mountains (as discussed previously).

Edit: The front will move rapidly along the southern Cape coast, bringing strong winds and some welcome rain in places.
 
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Matroosberg update, looks like it all got washed away by the rain last night.
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Glad I slept in
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They are also concerned about the dam levels. Hopefully we will have more rain on the way as the last two fronts have been disappointing.
 
Capetonians say it is pretty cold round about now, and not entirely without cause. On Monday, preliminary data from the SA Weather Service shows, its Royal Yacht Club station captured a new record low temperature.

That low was 3.1 degrees Celsius (down from the previous record of 3.3 degrees), which people in Sutherland may have found relatively balmy. On Monday, that Northern Cape town saw a minimum of -8, and on Sunday the temperature never made it above 7.4.

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As a weather record, the information has proven hugely valuable, say Stefan Grab from Wits and Mark Williams from Cardiff University, in a recent paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Colony founder Jan van Riebeeck "took a personal interest in understanding the Cape climate and its implications for local shipping", they say, and asked for daily weather to be included in day registers, first used to capture the details of ships at sea. As a result, weather observations were captured from 1652 through until 1791, and with remarkable consistency.

We don't know exactly how cold it got – especially not relative to Sutherland – but we do know that in 1787 it rained a lot. The year saw 121 rain days, 60% above the mean for the last 75 years. Wet spells typically lasted for a week, and at one point it rained for 16 solid days, while the longest wet spell in the last two decades was nine days, in 2010.
 
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So no more need to try for a secession?
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If the Cape wants water security it needs to get rid of national socialist rulers like the DA and ANC irrespective of secession. I think secession is needed for that.
 
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