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Geoff.D

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The weather people are talking of a cut off low offshore North West of SA.
 
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Geoff.D said:
It stinks of incompetence and real carelessness when your monitors and gauges fluctuate like this. Notice another drop after the miraculous fill to 100% all in one day
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With all due respect, Voelvlei is an old dam, and the time to calibrate and adjust is when it is not raining, like this week...

If a float gauge is malfunctioning, the only way to fix it may be to remove the entire mechanism, which produces a 'high' reading until it is replaced.

Real-time graphs can be fun to watch, but the only thing that really matters are the daily (calibrated) updates on the CoCT site: http://www.capetown.gov.za/Family a...and-sanitation-services/this-weeks-dam-levels
 
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genetic said:
Seems this post stinks of ignorance.
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Picking a fight are you? It is real easy to maintain the gauges AND then FIX the data afterwards to remove the anomalies . Anomalies mess up data integrity , period!
 
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So, when is it raining again? I had to drain my pool to repaire and repaint it so now I need to fill it again.
 
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The_Mowgs said:
So, when is it raining again? I had to drain my pool to repaire and repaint it so now I need to fill it again.
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Don't worry, I am in CT at the end of the week. The "familie" always jokes that I bring the rain.
 
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Looks like today, Sunday was a warm day in CT! Arrived this afternoon at 18:00.
 
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Agent_Smith said:
Yeah, the whole weekend was warm (more so on Sunday). Seems this week is going to be mild with a chance of rain on Friday.
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No rain forecast for the next 7 days according to Windguru.com. Lets hope they're wrong...
 
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The AAO index reached zero on the 17th. The forecast showed that it would go positive again which it did. The forecast shows the index going negative from the 26th. So if all this theory holds good then we wont see any cold fronts penetrating inland till after the 26th maybe only after the 29 th.
 
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Dam levels for CT rose by another 1.3% to 56.4% during the week up to Mon 23rd, in spite of zero rainfall during this period: http://resource.capetown.gov.za/doc...ity research reports and review/damlevels.pdf

I think we have to accept that 2018 will probably be below average rainfall, and that restrictions will remain in place for a very long time..

The main factor is that we are clearly outside the danger zone, which was a huge turnaround in the last two months!
 
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Hundreds missing after dam collapses releasing 5,000,000,000 litres of water

Several people are dead and hundreds are currently missing after a hydropower dam collapsed in Laos. The accident happened at a dam in southeastern Attapeu province late last night. It saw the dam release five billion litres of water – more than two million Olympic swimming pools – with ‘several human lives claimed, and several hundreds of people missing’, Laos News Agency said.
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