'Dry' South Africans celebrate 'insignificant' rainfall
Six provinces across drought-ravaged South Africa have enjoyed rain‚ accompanied by cool temperatures.
Although not enough to help with dam levels‚ it was cause of celebration on social media and office chatrooms alike on Wednesday as people shared their pleasure at some moisture to settle the dust.
“If you're in Joburg and haven't looked out your window today‚ then this is what you'll see! Bless the rains down in Africa! #Thankful #Rain‚” Good Things Guy @GoodThingsGuy shared.
If you're in Joburg and haven't looked out your window today, then this is what you'll see! Bless the rains down in Africa! #Thankful#Rainpic.twitter.com/QH8CPS3itL
— Good Things Guy (@GoodThingsGuy) October 19, 2016
“Rain‚ we thank God for hearing our prayers‚” l am Nonhlanhla @Lolo_Mesh said.
Rain we thank God for hearing our prayers we thank u father ☔ #rain@lunguswaMbolek2@KhayaMbolekwana yes God heard our prayers it's Raining
— l am Nonhlanhla (@Lolo_Mesh) October 19, 2016
Parts of the Free State enjoyed decent rainfall‚ with Vrystaat Landbou @vslandbou tweeting “Lovely to share. 25mm rain between Bothaville and Orkney”.
<p =""> </p><p ="">Weather Watch SA @storm_sa shared: “Good falls of rain reported this morning from GP/LP/MP/KZN with band of showers + thundershowers still over E-SA.”</p><p =""></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" =""><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Good falls of rain reported this morning from GP/LP/MP/KZN with band of showers+thundershowers still over E-SA,expected to dissipate by 12am <a href="https://t.co/VKg8qJzTxp">pic.twitter.com/VKg8qJzTxp</a></p>— Weather Watch SA (@storm_sa) <a href="https://twitter.com/storm_sa/status/788634659987095552">October 19, 2016</a></blockquote><script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" ="">asyncLovely to share. 25mm #rain between Bothaville and Orkney. Did you have #rain? @FarmersWeeklySA@peoples_weatherpic.twitter.com/WZwrBcEa4P
— Vrystaat Landbou (@vslandbou) October 19, 2016
The SA Weather Service cautioned‚ however‚ that the rainfall was “insignificant”.
Areas that experienced rain‚ according to the service‚ included some parts of the North West‚ Gauteng‚ Mpumalanga‚ Free State‚ KwaZulu-Natal and some parts of Limpopo. There was no rain recorded in the Western Cape and only the Eastern parts of the Eastern Cape.
“There was no significant rainfall in these areas. Rainfall was almost the same in all these provinces‚” forecaster Mkhushulwa Simanga said.
He said rain will become isolated in these areas throughout the week.
“Temperatures will remain cool in the mentioned areas. They will reach the warm category on Thursday.
“We are expecting hot temperatures on Saturday‚” Mkhushulwa said.