Cpe Town is in for a lively weekend weatherwise, as the Cape Town Weather Office warned of heavy rain and gale-force wind.
|||Cape Town - Cape Town is in for a rough weekend weatherwise, as the Cape Town Weather Office warned of heavy rain and gale-force wind arriving with another cold front on Saturday afternoon.
Disaster Risk Management staff were on standby to cope with possible flooding in parts of the city, said spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes.
While the weather people declined to issue severe weather warnings, they did offer what they called “special weather advisories”, as Saturday’s front was due to be followed by another on Sunday.
These fronts would lead to “heavy falls of rain in places over the western and south-western mountains of the Western Cape province”, as well as “strong, damaging” winds reaching gale force at times in places in the Western Cape interior.
The weather office also warned that gales and strong gales would be experienced along the coast between Cape Columbine and Plettenberg Bay on Sunday.
There would be very rough seas with wave heights greater than 4m from Alexander Bay to Plettenberg Bay on Saturday and Sunday, with waves higher than 6m between Cape Columbine and Plettenberg Bay on Sunday afternoon and Monday.
Temperatures were expected to drop and there could be moderate snowfalls on the province’s mountains.
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