Is There Going To Be Snow On Table Mountain This Week?

UPDATE: Wednesday afternoonhere’s the latest news

OMG! OMG! OMG! Yes! OMG!
Well, that’s what Facebook says anyway.

The thing is, everyone is going bonkers over a single forecast from mountain-forecast.com, which appears to be the ANN7 of weather forecasting websites:

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As you can see, they’re suggesting a total of 9 cm of snow (those red numbers) on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and they say:

Our advanced weather models allow us to provide distinct weather forecasts for several elevations of Table Mountain.

Te one above is distinctly their best guess for 1087m elevation – which is about as high as Table Mountain is. So there you go.

However, other more reputable sites, such as windguru.cz and weathersa.co.za are merely predicting much coldness and rain for the Mother City.

But before you get all depressed at the prospect of having no snow on Table Mountain again, just like there wasn’t last summer as well, there may actually be a glimmer of hope at the end of the Cableway.

And that’s because even windguru is suggesting that there will be light precipitation over Cape Town on Thursday evening AND they’re saying that it’ll be 0°C at about 1000m elevation as well:

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While it is a myth that it actually needs to be 0°C for snow to fall (actually, precipitation generally falls as snow below 2°C) this is certainly cold enough for snow on the summit of Table Mountain to be a possibility this week.

The last snowfall on the mountain was in August 2011.

Break out the skis and the snowshoes. And someone please warn Instagram to get some extra servers on the go.
This could be serious.

Unclear

It appears that I didn’t make myself clear in this post.

So:

Things to do if you disagree with a bylaw:

  1. Object during the public participation step of the bylaw formulation and approval process plan.
  2. Write to your local councillor and tell him or her that you think that the bylaw should be scrapped/changed.

Things NOT to do if you disagree with a bylaw:

  1. Pretend that it doesn’t exist and encourage people to break it as much as possible.

I hope that clears things up for anyone struggling with this obviously testing concept.

High on the happy side

A quick quota photo (including an important number) from a boozy afternoon at High Constantia winery yesterday with some great company and some wonderfully friendly and accommodating staff.

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An interesting selection of wines, including a fantastic MCC, a dodgy Shiraz and the ‘Sebastiaan’ – a really, really superb Bordeaux Blend.

Also worth a look, their Terra Madre limited edition, bottle fermented, fizzy cider (as pictured above), full of apples, alcohol and vitamin C.

Dr Priki will see you now

As handed to me at the traffic lights at the top of the road:

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Lots to take in there. Or maybe there’s not and that’s why you need to go and see her.
Anyway, as you can see, there’s none of that long term expensive medicine needed here. Just take your penis and R50.00 to give to her and she’ll work on your penis and you’ll leave with a surprise.

I do, however, have some concerns. Chiefly around her “New Steaming Method”.
Now, I’d never tried her old steaming method, and that was because there are few things I think I’d enjoy less than having my penis steamed. I’ve seen what that stuff can do to dumplings. And envelopes. No way is she going to steam my bits.

On the flip side of the leaflet, Dr P also claims to be able to be an ‘expert in giving luck to the poor and rich’, ‘helping bewitched people and taking away tokoloshe‘ and ‘making your lover to be yours only’. I have to say that I’m unconvinced that any lover would stick around if, whilst in the throes of passion, you suddenly revealed a steamed penis though. I’d be out of there like a shot.

Also, she is an “expert at healing TB”, which makes me wonder why she hasn’t just done it already.