The Gauteng Weather and Storm Warning Thread!

[catman37]

Maybe there is still hope...

 

[Segg]

The rain was over Limpopo and Mpumulanga early this afternoon - I got a nice wash just East of Witbank and had to divert slightly south around some CB's near Lydenburg

I got some decent pictures of some small "towering" cumulus clouds though - the haze today was horrendous

 

[lived666]

A windmill is more expensive than a solar pump and the hassles with maintenance is much more than a solar pump.

Something like this?

80 Meter Solar Borehole Pump | Water Storage | Water Storage | Water Storage | Lawn & Garden | Home & Garden | Makro Online Site

80m Solare borehole pump. Works 100% from the sun, you do not require batteries or AC power. Pump the water into a tank during the day when there is sunlight. Recommended solar panel size is 1 x 265Watt panel or larger (not included in the kit).

www.makro.co.za

That's not that expensive, depending what else is required

 

[Venomous]

Look at a bubbler system to filter graywater for veggie garden use

Will read up on that.

Our problem with things like that is that our ground is pretty much level, no slopes. A very small piece at the back is higher, and its very far from the veg garden..

What I need to do is picket fence off the veg garden so that the young pup cant get there. She's digging up everything that grows under ground that are bulb/tubes.

She had a hard start to life. Survival was her teacher and unteaching that would be impossible.
And at a skinny 27kgs at almost 8 months she's not small, so a high picket fence required.

 

[Venomous]

Fsuk i hit 98kl


Last month repaired and filled the pool so also a heavy month

Ouch!

 

[Speedster]

Rain, sweet rain...

 

[Temujin]

Oh how I've missed waking up to the sound of a rumbling sky

 

[Jings]

Thundering for a few minutes in Alberton but now it sounds far away.

 

[geezer]

It's been raining on and off lightly since about 05:30 this morning.

 

[Venomous]

We've got rain!!!

 

[sand_man]

Norwood just had about 2 minutes.

 

[alqassam]

Drizzle and thunder in Kyalami.

Screw that it's coming hard now

 

[alqassam]

Fun fact of the day


Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood

Geosmin: Why We Like The Smell Of Air After A Storm

Though human noses get dismissed as amateurs as compared to the snouts on some animals, there is one compound where we do really well. We can smell geosmin, a chemical released by dead microbes at a level of 5 parts per trillion. That's right, trillion.

www.acsh.org

To put that in context, a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin, which is also the source of the earthy taste in some vegetables, than a shark is to blood. No wonder I hate the taste of beets, my nose is probably better than yours.

 

[MGMT]

Raining nicely in the south of Johannesburg.

 

[Arzy]

Some thunder and lightning as well, good way to wake up!

 

[Moosedrool]

 

[The_Librarian]

@Venomous and the rest :

Tough and reliable wastewater treatment plants for Africa

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scarabsa.co.za

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www.bubbler.co.za

 

[The_Librarian]

Both the above do both greywater and blackwater filtering systems, from small to large.

 

[Segg]

What a great start to the morning!

There should be some proper thunderstorms later this afternoon if the TAF's hold up

 

[namzsteve]

Thunder in the fourways area, I wonder if we'll get any rain at all.