If there was more certainty about future weather, there might be less concern. But this is not the case.
said while summer rains would be late and October very dry, November would almost definitely see good rains.But South Africans shouldn’t expect that forecasting success to continue. It’s unusual for a seasonal forecast to be so confident.
The second map is important because it shows only the areas where forecasters are reasonably confident that the predictions are significant or, in their terminology, sufficiently “skilful”. As a result, the second map is often almost completely blank. Opposite forecasts for most of the summer period… increases the uncertainty for the coming summer season.
Explaining Cape Town’s Day Zero debacle, then Western Cape premier Helen Zille was accused of blaming the country’s weather service,Finds itself facing a crisis because SA Weather Services got their predictions all wrong…
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