Dry January?

I’ve been keeping an eye on satellite imagery of the Berg over January 2025. 
From Giants to RNNP seems to have had an unusually low incidence of thunderstorms. 
if you’ve been in this part of the Berg, have you noticed that it has been dry?

 

Hi Tiska
I have also been following the rainfall, looking at a French site that collects rainfall and other data from RNNP, Giants and Shaleburn near Underberg.  For Dec 24 RNNP recorded 183mm which was 34% more than the norm, but Jan was 155mm, 20% less than the norm.  Shaleburne had 53 and 23% less than the norm.  Last Jan RNNP received 205mm.  Most they have received was in 2011 when they got 358mm.  The average for the last 25 years is 186mm.  So is defiinely drier if you just look at the averages.

Looking at the Cathedral Peak webcam which I usaully do daily, it seems like there are heavy dark thunder clouds from about midday, but this is not resulting in much rain.  At contour level though, the tarns are fill about the same as they were last year.  I am hoping to go up some time this month, but am trying to dodge the 'rain' that I keep seeing on the forecast and the heavy clouds on the webcam.  The forecasts though always show more rain than they actually is measured.  So its hard to work out what is actually going to happen on the day.

Not sure if this helps as it is theoretical.  I wish I had been up there recently  .

Many thanks ST. Great knowledge. Much appreciated.

Could I ask where you find the RNNP data? I usually use weather underground but the RNNP station doesn't show up on that site.

Hi Tiska.
Pleasure.  It is in French which is a bind, and I cant recall how I am still able to use it without logging in, so hopefully you can work it out.  Most of the words are translatable as they look like English, for the rest, you might need to translate until you know your way around.  Of course the data is only as relaible as the input.  But seems to be ok.
www.infoclimat.fr/climatologie-mensuelle/68474/janvier/2025/royal-natal-nat-pa.html
 

Useful site.
Well found!

Judging from the recent trip that I just read about, seems like there is plenty of water now!

@Tiska. The french site that i sent you doesnt seem to be poluated with data for Feb.  I have now since registered, and gotten hold of them and awaiting their response.  I realised that at the top rhs of the web address bar, on mac a least, there is a language translation option.  So I manged to change it to english which wa how i ended up registering in the hope that the data would be there.  Will see what happens.

Thanks Johnathan another one to add to my weather tab list 
A few questions if you dont mind.
When it says monthly anomaly, does this just refer to less precipitation than the norm, and not something related to climate change?
Are you using the automatic model or another?
Thanks
Karl