Snow Watch 2016

hansenah@absamail.co.za wrote: Hi Jon,

Plse can you tell me the site address where I can get the snow & rainfall image from, that is attached to your comment.

Alan

Hi hansenah

Sorry for the late reply, the image is from www.snow-forecast.com/maps/dynamic/southafrica

With snow levels likely to already be over a meter in places on the escarpment, it is interesting to note how much more is still forecast to fall today.

At the moment, it seems the Southern and Central Berg escarpment can expect another + - 15cm, with another 30-50cm forecast for the Northern Berg escarpment.

I think we can be fairly certain that there will be a lot of snow around up top for a good couple weeks!

Update from the Afriski Facebook page:

"Afriski is covered in a thick blanket of snow, with approxiamtely 70 - 80 cm of heavy snowfall since Sunday."

Sunday morning on top of Giant's, courtesy of the MCSA Ice climbing meet.



Photo take from the FB page of Tor Åge Schunemann.

Extremely heavy snow also reported at Somonkong Lodge in Lesotho. Pic below from their Facebook Page:

Cathedral Peak this morning:

Hi Trev, will post it when it becomes available later this afternoon.

Here's a low res version from Sat24 this morning:



The snow cover may not look quite as impressive as we might think due to the fact that the freezing levels did lift quite high yesterday so a lot of areas would have got rain. The snow on the peaks should be very thick though!