Rain and storm for Cpt

[Gordon_R]

Recorded 30mm in Kenilworth up to 7pm. Large puddles on lawn for first time in years! Quieter now, main front seems to have passed.

P.S. One of my neighbours says he got stuck in traffic for an hour...

P.P.S. Rainwater tanks full. Mesh trap blocked with leaves, some overflow onto soft soil...

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Coming down in buckets in Brackenfell now.

Keep them to catch the rain in!

But that's what I said: Coming down IN buckets...??

 

[biometrics]

Windguru says 9-12 pm is when it's happening ...

 

[saturnz]

nothing so far

 

[biometrics]

nothing so far

I'm thinking it's over. Hardly enough to break a drought.

They (national) sent a weeks worth of water to Saldanha, so we're at 20.0% now. Only 6.5% to day zero.

/bites nails

 

[saturnz]

I thought there was going to be flooding, the roads are drying again

 

[biometrics]

I thought there was going to be flooding, the roads are drying again

/lowers offer on CBD property ...

 

[Geoff.D]

Two more fronts on the way. One arrives Wednesday and the other on Thursday. And there is the front expected on Sunday, that is going to mess up the long weekend for some. That is the one I have been watching ... How the various models change their predictions from substantial to weak and back again to significant rains.

And guys, if it does not rain where you are , it does NOT mean there has not been rains somewhere else, and the real importance is rain that falls in the dam catchment areas.

 

[air]

Jonkershoek is finally on the scoreboard with 0.3mm of rain in the last hour

just over 50mm recorded

 

[Craig_]

Two more fronts on the way. One arrives Wednesday and the other on Thursday. And there is the front expected on Sunday, that is going to mess up the long weekend for some. That is the one I have been watching ... How the various models change their predictions from substantial to weak and back again to significant rains.

And guys, if it does not rain where you are , it does NOT mean there has not been rains somewhere else, and the real importance is rain that falls in the dam catchment areas.

Only Cape Town, or Plett direction as well?

 

[cerebus]

It sounded like it rained nicely throughout the night.

 

[Cius]

Any good links for Cape dam levels like this one for the vaal: http://www.reservoir.co.za/

 

[Sinbad]

http://www.capetown.gov.za/Family a...and-sanitation-services/this-weeks-dam-levels

 

[Gordon_R]

Any good links for Cape dam levels like this one for the vaal: http://www.reservoir.co.za/

There are no inflow gauges for the Cape Town dams, since there are no major rivers running into them (lots of little streams).

Weekly dam levels are the best we get...

 

[Ho3n3r]

http://www.capetown.gov.za/Family a...and-sanitation-services/this-weeks-dam-levels

What the hell happened to Steenbras Upper?

Current: 62.9
Previous week: 85.1

:erm:

Did Zuma and his family have a vacation there last week?

 

[akescpt]

What the hell happened to Steenbras Upper?

Current: 62.9
Previous week: 85.1

:erm:

Did Zuma and his family have a vacation there last week?

Do the farmers have access to it? Very strange.

 

[air]

Do the farmers have access to it? Very strange.

maybe related to Misverstand dam issue?

 

[Suspect99]

What the hell happened to Steenbras Upper?

Current: 62.9
Previous week: 85.1

:erm:

Did Zuma and his family have a vacation there last week?

Isnt that a pump storage dam?

 

[Nom Chompsky]

Aunty Helen regarding tomorrow's rainfall

The picture on the left (top in this post) predicts the rain approaching WCape at 8pm tomorrow. However, on the right (bottom in this post) we see that by 11pm the epicentre of the rainfall is again expected to be pushed South, missing the Peninsula and catchment areas. That explains our core water problem.

https://twitter.com/helenzille/status/988651594123239424

 

[crysis]

Aunty Helen regarding tomorrow's rainfall



https://twitter.com/helenzille/status/988651594123239424

LOL @ some of the comments on that.