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Exactly wet

By 6000 | 6000 | May 10, 2010

Look, it has been raining a fair amount in Cape Town over the last few days. This is to be expected. Cape Town’s 3½ annual months of winter have begun and September and the spring that it allegedly brings with it seems a long way away right now.   Kirstenbosch had over 50mm of rain yesterday [...]

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Hello Winter, my old friend

By 6000 | 6000 | May 4, 2010

Winter has suddenly and viciously arrived in Cape Town. Just [does the maths] 72 hours after that sublime day out in Franschhoek, with its cloudless skies and 27 degrees, there are suddenly many inches of rain and a plethora of Beauforts. The pressure has dropped below 1000mb for the first time this year and the temperature [...]

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