Snow Watch 2011

@ Intrepid
I don't think ice is inconsistent with this time of the year. Over the last number of years I have experienced ice coverings on rivers and iced waterfalls at the end April/beginning May. I recorded -6 degrees in April 2006 up Menweni and experienced sleet while in Roland cave in April 2007.
Maybe the amount of rain that we have had this year is just allowing a more visible showing of the ice?
The pictures below were taken in April 2007, still iced-up well into the morning.
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We slept on the Jeep Track just before the Organ Pipes turn off, last week Wednesday night and my themometer read -4. After all the wind we had, we were expecting a strong cold front to move in - never happend but it was sure cold enough. We could see that the waterfalls in the high berg were mostly frozen as we could only see bright white on the black rock were there were a waterfall the day before.

A friend of mine just told me, he can see snow on the mountain from Phuthaditjhaba.

Passed through Lesotho this weekend - plenty of snow remaining on south-facing slopes, and plenty of frozen ground and needle ice as a result of recent rain! Sani top was pretty snow-free, but near Oxbow and Afriski things are rather icy.