SAWDIS posted the following real-time updates and radar images yesterday afternoon:
Thunderstorms and showers active just west of Port Elizabeth. Good falls of rain possible. Radar Image: http://tweetphoto.com/13914555
Fairly intense thunderstorms currently active in the Eastern Cape. Radar Image: http://tweetphoto.com/13897865
At 13h00 this afternoon Radio RSG report as follows:
"Vloedskade is aangerig aan geboue en paaie in die Karoodorp - Willowmore - in die Oos-Kaap ná 'n wolkbreuk. Dit volg nadat sowat 85-millimeter reën binne 'n halfuur oor die gebied uitgesak het, waartydens geboue beskadig en paaie op sekere plekke weggespoel het. Reën het ook uitgesak in ander dele van die provinsie soos Graaff-Reinet, Joubertina, Addo en Uitenhage waar tussen 9- en 15-millimeter reën aangeteken is. Swaar reën het vroeër oor die Baviaanskloof-gebied uitgesak. Dit was egter nie genoeg om die vlak van die Kouga-dam te laat styg wat Port Elizabeth se hoof-waterbron is nie. In Port Elizabeth is 4-millimeter reën gemeet."
Willowmore appear on the Port Elizabeth Weather Radar Network but it is not possible to accurately track a storm in the area, as Willowmore is on the coverage edge of the PE Radar. All the more reason to install a radar network in the Southern Cape area. The following image show a storm near Willowmore, but really do not reflect the intensity that well.
Image: SA Weather Service (Click on image for larger view.)
