Snowing In Johannesburg..

[kazthorn]

Originally Posted by Mike

Here are some of the UK flood pictures

Mike ...

We've had similar flooding here too.
http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/stories/2007_floods.htm

It resulted in a major highway collapsing and killed a family of 5.

The storm was so severe it beached a ship.

http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/stories/s1945881.htm

[smartsez]

I hope this isnt all a taster of what really is to come! if it is, i dont like it very much!

oh, and

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

BTW! Welcome back... glad to hear you had a good holiday even if nobody spoke English

thanks! nice to be back (sort of!)lol!

[Mike]

I sent my work mate a link to this post as he is from Joberg, he sent me back the attached picture. It was apparently taken yesterday in Cape Town

[smartsez]

wow! not a picture you'd expect to have from there!

[Nutty_ZA]

I lived in Cape Town for about a Year... Winter there is awful... rains practically non stop, has very strong winds and gets dark at about 4pm... a really horrible place to be... the only problem is, that when it gets cold in Cape Town, the cold front always seems to move up north across the entire country... so you know that if they have a cold snap there, you can guarantee cold weather in Jhb one to two days later (Johannesburg is +- 1000 miles North of Cape Town)... even though the winters are relatively short here (it starts getting cold around about mid april and gets warm again about the end of August about 4-5 months of cold weather) winters can be really cold... it can get down to the negative teens in some places, although Jhb normally hovers between 0 and -5 overnight and up to about 12 - 15 during the day... thankfully, the summers make up for it(which are about 8 months long as we don't really have much of a spring or autumn) with temperatures around 32 - 34 degrees...

Anyway, I've posted a few more pictures of the Snow on our website if anyone would like to have a look...(will post the mozambiques pics shortly)

The URL is www.gifts4africa.co.za/snow

[smartsez]

you've got some really cool photos on there!

[TheGuru]

Great pics Nutty

I didnt realise that it got so cold down there, I'd also forgot that your continent was so big

Are the dogs and horses yours?

[smartsez]

i was a little shocked by the 1000 miles bit too lol!

[Nutty_ZA]

Originally Posted by smartsez

you've got some really cool photos on there!

Thanks

Originally Posted by The Guru

Great pics Nutty

I didnt realise that it got so cold down there, I'd also forgot that your continent was so big

Are the dogs and horses yours?

Thanks again...

Yep, can get pretty cold... thankfully it doesn't last too long (as I said, about 4 months)

The Dogs are ours, The Darker of the 2 horses is ours, the lighter one we are stabling for someone else...

It's 1400 KM's from Cape Town to Johannesburg, so probably more like 900 Miles tho I actually haven't done the conversion properly...

I heard somewhere that the entire British Isles would fit into the Kruger National Park (not sure how true that is tho???)... Gonna check it out

[Nutty_ZA]

'kay... not quite true...
The British Ilse's in total are 244,820 km²
The Kruger National Park is 18,989 km2 sooo it is a looooooong way off LMAO
However the surface are of South AFrica is 1 219 090 km... so South Africa is about 6 times larger than Britain...