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Amidst a severe weather warning from Weather SA (bring it on baby, bring it on) we have todays welcome news that the Dam Levels have risen yet again to 45.3% total avalable capacity. The Loerie dam level fell 4.5 percentage points to 74.9%, though.

Isolated, light showers and thundershowers are expected to start up in the central interior of the country on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday and Wednesday 7 and 8 June, rainfall is expected to spread to most parts of South Africa, with a risk of heavy falls of rain (greater than 50mm in 24 hours) in some areas.

Currently, the places most at risk of heavy rainfall on Tuesday 7 June are the North-West Province, Free State and eastern parts of the Northern Cape. On Wednesday 8 June, the risk of heavy rainfall may persist in these areas, while spreading to southern Gauteng, the Eastern Cape, eastern parts of the Western Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal.

Significant snowfalls are likely on the mountains of Lesotho, the Drakensberg, and the north-eastern high ground of the Eastern Cape. Very windy conditions are expected in many parts of the interior on Tuesday and Wednesday.

There is presently uncertainty about the behaviour of this weather system as it exits the country later in the week. However, the eastern parts of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal may still be at risk of heavy falls of rain on Thursday and Friday 9 and 10 June.

At present the cold and rainy weather has klapped Cape Town and is making it’s way up the coast towards Port Elizabeth.

Major Storage Dams supplying the Metro as at 6 June 2011. Capacity – Volume of water:
Kouga: 56,3% – 72437 Ml
Churchill: 39.1% – 13 900
Impofu: 24,5% – 24 003
Loerie: 74,9% – 2 937
Groendal: 100% – 11 645
Average all: 45,03% (124 923Ml) of total combined capacity.

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Alan Straton

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.