Expect more cold weather

South African Weather Service FOR more information and up-to-the-minute forecasts, click here. RELATED LINKS: Snow turns city of gold icy white FREEZING temperatures, the result of an extremely cold front, brought snow to the Highveld, with Joburgers waking up to an unusual site – a winter wonderland outside their windows. Read more Cold is here to stay – this week EXPECT a cold weekend, warns the weather bureau, which says the mercury will only begin to rise on Monday. Read more Cold snap to continue biting JOBURG will be freezing for the rest of the week, with temperatures warming a little over the weekend. And then it's back to the big chill again, according to the South African Weather Service. Read more

More cold weather is on the way We may have had a few warm days, but it is not time to pack away your winter woollies. The weather service forecasts some chilly days ahead. August 6, 2007 By Millicent Kgowedi THE biting cold that greeted Joburgers this morning is normal; and the warmer weather the city had last week is "not normal for this time of the year". This is the word of Tracy Gill, a climatologist at the South African Weather Service. Joburgers woke to a chilly morning as the temperatures dropped to single figures. Residents had to brave strong, cold winds blowing at 32 kilometres an hour, a cloudy sky and patches of fog, with a partly cloudy forecast for the rest of the day. "We had a cold front last night and these are the kinds of weather conditions people can expect after a cold front." Gill said that in the last 15 years the country had been experiencing warmer winters - the influence of global warming. "People don't have the sense of what winter should be like anymore because over the past couple of years we've been having winters that have more warmer days than before." Temperatures are expected to be low for most of the week as the chill continues to strike. The mercury will drop again on Tuesday, 7 August, with a minimum temperature of 4°C and a 30 percent chance of showers. "Temperatures will recover on Friday; [however] we are due to have another cold front during the week," Gill added. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za