Ten degrees? As a maximum?
Is this some sort of joke?
Approaching the end of September and we’re still only scraping into double figures?
Of course, it’s only unofficially Spring, but it would be nice to have some unofficial Spring weather to go with it.
Just to keep you inquisitive people who keep asking if we’re still on for a few flakes of the white stuff on Table Mountain tomorrow night, in the loop – and if you’re in Cape Town today, then you’ll readily believe anything the weather has to throw at us – here’s an update.
Following on from this post which compared the frankly ludicrous claims of mountain-forecast.com – it’s a weather forecast site for mountains, innit? – with those more reasonable efforts of windguru and weathersa, we need to tell you right now that the whole snow on Table Mountain thing IS STILL POSSIBLE.
What we’re looking for is temperatures below 2°C at 1000m or below, together with forecasted precipitation. That, plus that will likely equal snow. And here’s the graph that matters:
Yeah. If you thought today was cold, you’d be right, but it’s only going to get colder when tomorrow comes around.
The blue line marks the height above sea level (in metres) at which you’ll experience an air temperature of 0°C. Looking at the contours just below that, you can see that the altitude at which we’ll have 2°C temperatures dips about as low as 800m during Thursday night and Friday morning. Add in cloudy skies and a (current) forecast of about 7-8mm of precipitation and all the ingredients are there.
As things stand right now, your best plan is to wrap up VERY warmly and head for the Cableway early on Friday morning.
Book online to save time and money. Avoid awkward allegations of sexism by making a snowperson. Avoiding awkward allegations of racism will be more difficult, because snow is previously advantaged.
Recorded for posterity and future meteorological reference: today was the day that winter hit Cape Town.
Big time.
I attempted to repel it with Milk Stout and red wine, but I fear that the battle may be already lost. At least until late September.
Still, I’ll continue to fight the good fight with all the decent alcoholic weaponry at my disposal, just in case I can preserve our precious summer a little longer.
I’m getting up at 0530 on the last day of my summer holiday to do a Fun Run tomorrow. It’s just 5km and it seems very poorly organised, but – thanks to the handy addition of some residing grandparents – it’s one of the very few chances that myself and Mrs 6k get to run together, so it has to be done.
On the upside, it will also give our resident mosquitoes less opportunity to feast upon me. On the downside, I’ve been using that lack of available blood as a fairly believable excuse for some poor average times lately.
So yes, it seems annoying to get up so early for such a short run, but at least we’ll be done before it gets ridiculously hot. We braved the Waterfront earlier and were amazed at the number of roasted tourists. It’s been a very warm December. Thankfully, there are still 13 weeks for it to cool down before the Two Oceans.
We’ve had “a few” run ins with the Cape Party over the years here on 6000.co.za.
We suggested that they wanted to turn the Cape into France:
Normandy is a bit out of proportion, but that Southern coast looks dangerously familiar.
We questioned where they got their logo from:
Did all three of them sit down and have a meeting about it? Was it a rough doodle? Or was there some other source?
And then we roundly mocked them when they did badly in the 2011 elections:
It’s not just me, it’s the entirety of the Western Cape that thinks your idea is a bad idea.
But fair play to the Cape Party, when the wicked weather over the Eastern Cape effectively removed a large chunk of the N2, they stepped in with this comment:
Nice try, guys. Nice try.
Keep dreaming.