Rain and storm for Cpt

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Gordon_R said:
This event has been unfolding a bit slower than I envisioned, with intermittent gaps and moderately heavy rain. The wind hasn't picked up much, but has swung to southerly now, and will be quite strong in places as the surface low intensifies and moves eastwards.

We had about 40mm overnight in our gauge in Kenilworth. The SAEON Dwarsberg (Jonkershoek mountain catchment) site reported 76mm up to midnight, with scattered rain since then.

It is already rather cold, but will actually get colder as the wind picks up, and the cold-core upper trough moves in over land this morning. It has already started snowing over the high mountains of the SW-Cape, and the snow will increase during the day, and spread eastwards into Sun 30th (as shown above).

A further weaker cold front will brush the SW-Cape coast overnight on Sun 30th into Mon 31st. Thereafter it will clear slowly, and no further rain is likely for the whole of next week (Tues 1st Aug onwards).
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Eish, hoping to go for a run there tomorrow morning. The last time we went was after that big storm a month or so ago and was told the trails were closed. Hope that's not the case again tomorrow.
 
The_Mowgs said:
Hopefully this is the last rain ever!
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Please go outside to your property boundary, find the municipal stop tap to your house and close it.. then proceed to Makro and buy a hundred boxes of nappies and chuck each of the nappies into your swimming pool to soak up the water..

Enjoy your happiness...
 
The SAWS reports widespread moderate rainfall in the 24 hours to 8am on Sat 29th: https://www.weathersa.co.za/images/data/climate/nr_daily_rai.pdf

Highest include Kirstenbosch 59mm, Grabouw 38mm, Villiersdorp 33mm, with lesser amounts across the Western Cape. Also of note were Port Nolloth (NC) 10mm, and Springbok (NC) 5mm. Further rainfall is likely to the east during the next 24 hours.
 
Gordon_R said:
This event has been unfolding a bit slower than I envisioned, with intermittent gaps and moderately heavy rain. The wind hasn't picked up much, but has swung to southerly now, and will be quite strong in places as the surface low intensifies and moves eastwards.

We had about 40mm overnight in our gauge in Kenilworth. The SAEON Dwarsberg (Jonkershoek mountain catchment) site reported 76mm up to midnight, with scattered rain since then.

It is already rather cold, but will actually get colder as the wind picks up, and the cold-core upper trough moves in over land this morning. It has already started snowing over the high mountains of the SW-Cape, and the snow will increase during the day, and spread eastwards into Sun 30th (as shown above).

A further weaker cold front will brush the SW-Cape coast overnight on Sun 30th into Mon 31st. Thereafter it will clear slowly, and no further rain is likely for the whole of next week (Tues 1st Aug onwards).
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Was a bit of a non event here in the Southern Suburbs tbh
 
Another 53mm reported at the SAEON Dwarsberg (Jonkershoek) site, 130mm in 48 hours. That would be an impressive inflow into the Berg River Dam, if it wasn't already 100% full...

A bit quieter this morning (Sun 30th), but still partly cloudy and very cold. Another weaker front is due later this afternoon, lingering into Mon 31st.

Very strong onshore winds are predicted for the southern and Eastern Cape today, as the surface low moves offshore.
 
Gordon_R said:
Another 53mm reported at the SAEON Dwarsberg (Jonkershoek) site, 130mm in 48 hours. That would be an impressive inflow into the Berg River Dam, if it wasn't already 100% full...

A bit quieter this morning (Sun 30th), but still partly cloudy and very cold. Another weaker front is due later this afternoon, lingering into Mon 31st.

Very strong onshore winds are predicted for the southern and Eastern Cape today, as the surface low moves offshore.
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We be having it!

Seems as if some water is heading to Impofu & Kouga (aka Paul Sauer) dams! :love::love::love:
 
Gordon_R said:
Another 53mm reported at the SAEON Dwarsberg (Jonkershoek) site, 130mm in 48 hours. That would be an impressive inflow into the Berg River Dam, if it wasn't already 100% full...

A bit quieter this morning (Sun 30th), but still partly cloudy and very cold. Another weaker front is due later this afternoon, lingering into Mon 31st.

Very strong onshore winds are predicted for the southern and Eastern Cape today, as the surface low moves offshore.
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Another 47mm reported at SAEON Dwarsberg, 175mm in 72 hours. A bit drier now. A modest 8mm in our gauge in Kenilworth this morning.

It will slowly begin to clear, though only reach 20C on Wed 2nd, with warm berg winds on Thurs 3rd.

No rain is predicted for CT during the week, but another front is possible next weekend (Sat 5th into Sun 6th).
 
Snow visible on the mountains this morning from Vredekloof. Not very heavy but still clearly visible. Melted/ dissapeared by this afternoon though. (Tuesday). Beautiful day but remained quite cold.
 
Not quite rain and storm but strange temperatures this AM - I felt it cycling to work.
In Stellenbosch at my place 15 degrees. Then 2 km down into town it is 21 degrees. And a further 2 km onwards up another hill there according to a weather underground station it is 24 degrees. A friend's weather station in Somerset West (10 km away) shows 11 degrees.
 
ajax said:
Not quite rain and storm but strange temperatures this AM - I felt it cycling to work.
In Stellenbosch at my place 15 degrees. Then 2 km down into town it is 21 degrees. And a further 2 km onwards up another hill there according to a weather underground station it is 24 degrees. A friend's weather station in Somerset West (10 km away) shows 11 degrees.
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Was 22 deg at home and 13 deg at work. NE winds.
 
backstreetboy said:
Just wait till you have to strip to your underwear because it's so hot.
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Nice late winter lull, but still cool until the sun comes up. Forecast for Thursday is 27C. Very little rain predicted in the next 10 days. Rather welcome after a very early and wet start to winter. The flowers need some sunshine after all the cloudy days.

Correction: Some fog near the coast first thing this morning. Will blow off soon.
 
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The next notable weather event for CT will be a slow moving frontal system with an associated cold-core upper trough, likely to make landfall late on Sun 13th. This will bring modest amounts of rain to the SW-Cape (only), with significantly below average temperatures and south-westerly winds on Mon 14th, and light snow on the high peaks. The exact details are still somewhat unclear this far in advance, as the system still has to evolve and intensify.

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Source: https://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/southafrica/next3to6days/snow
 
The rain/snow event on Mon 14th failed to materialise, though it was somewhat cold and windy.

After a few dry and mild days, a frontal trough has reached CT this morning (Thurs 17th), which will bring scattered showers throughout the day.

Another frontal system is expected to brush the SW-Cape on Mon 21st.
 
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