05-08-04 flooding:

Satellite images:
False colour at 09:45



Visible over Cape Town at 09:45, somewhere under the clouds......





Radar image at 07:15 from SAWS showing the extent of the downpour (blue equals heavier rain). The light blue circled region of heavy rain moved very slowly to the east and was relatively long lived (about 2.5 hours). The red line is the 30 minute forecast position.



Some rainfall figures for the day until 18:00, most of this happened before 12:00:
University of Cape Town - 46 mm
Herschel Girls School - 46.8 mm
Cape Technikon - 50.3 mm
COSAT (Khayelitsha) - 29.4 mm
REd Hill (Simonstown) 30.3 mm
Wellington - 5.6 mm
Kistenbosch got 102.5 mm (cannot verify)

Some pictures from www.news24.com and other sources:

Two images from Pinelands






River Club on the Liesbeek river






Kenilworth Waltons depot:



The poor are hardest hit





The inevitibility of it all......