The winter has started over here, several places has reported light snow fall over the last 2 days.
If you are on your way over, pack something warm.

By the way this is very unusual for us!!

I once had the water freeze in my room in Namibia.
RIch Elliott

That looks so odd, Johann. Have you made Zoe a snowman yet?

I was there on 01 or 02. It was the coldest it had been in 108 years. The first morning it was 8 degrees Fahrenheit . It was the coldest I have ever been in Africa. I was not prepared for that kind of cold.

Pipes were frozen as was the water in radiators in vehicles. Blocks broke.

I assume the precipitation is more uncommon at this time of year than the temperatures.

Dean

The bloody weather has gone mad here too. Thunder storms, heavy rain and snow on the mountains. I normally get through winter without wearing a pair of longs. At the rate things are going, I going to have to purchase another pair or two, it is so damn cold.

And that gentlemen is why I choose to hunt late in the seasons. If I want to hunt in the bloody snow and cold I have more than ample opportunity to do that here. Give me a 100 degrees any day!

Johann:

Anila and I will be next door at Jan and Mariesje's in a little over 3 weeks. We arrive in country on 27 Jun, renting a car for week and going to Swakop for a few days. Jan will meet us on 4 Jul. We'll be with them till the 17th. Guess we may need to think about packing some longjohns too now.

Hope to see you and Valerie while we are there.

Michael

Shona quit bull shitting that is just white sand..


Mike

A friend in Windhoek told me that the forecast was for snow. At first I thought it was a snow job but after seeing your pic I now believe. Yippee! The Namibian Olympic Ski Team will get some practice.

be fun to watch the animals react to this

Hell frozen over??

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Originally posted by maki:
I assume the precipitation is more uncommon at this time of year than the temperatures.

Dean

You got that one perfectly right! The low, and even well below freezing point, temperatures are not so strange. Reason why snow is unusual for much of the Southern African highveld and Namibia is the scarcity of atmospheric moisture during the winter months. It takes low temperatures and moist air to result in snow!

But more on topic - yes the weather here and elsewhere has gone a bit mad! To anyone coming to these shores in the next few months, pack warm enough, and make provision for totally unexpected rain in winter!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

must be the fault of global warming- oops, with apologies to the inventor of the internet, Al Gore, I meant to say climate change.

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Originally posted by retreever:
Shona quit bull shitting that is just white sand..


Mike

Wish I was bull Shitting, here are some more pictures.

















Hi Bill
No unfortunately we could not build a snowman,the snow is not close to our lodge but more to the South of Windhoek

I presume you know Malan and Barista since your last image is one I also just received from them>

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Originally posted by ravenr:
be fun to watch the animals react to this

Not really! A lot of them, notably kudu, bushbuck and warthog, turn into flybait, maggot breeding stations. The longer, wetter and more intense the weather is, the higher the motality rate is.

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Originally posted by Scriptus:
The bloody weather has gone mad here too. Thunder storms, heavy rain and snow on the mountains. I normally get through winter without wearing a pair of longs. At the rate things are going, I going to have to purchase another pair or two, it is so damn cold.

Same here in White River...... I've had the damn heating on for most of the day!

I am ready for some cold. It's been up to 105F here in Texas the last few days. i hope the cold hangs on until I get there the 23rd!

So when do we get to start caribou hunting in Namibia?

jtex,, I arrive the 24th! I will just miss ya,,,It was 108 at my last hog hunt,, we had to be careful with the heat during the day,,i could stand a little cooling off

As I was saying, our weather has gone a little mad. I know that the Nahoon River flowing through East london is nothing like the Missippi, for us to see it in flood and at this time of the year, is indeed something else.


Water going over the wall at the Nahoon Dam.


Pleasure craft on their way out to sea. Some were saved, others were wrecked and lost.





If one looks in the water, one can clearly see trees that have been uprooted.






This is the Abbotsford Causeway, normally a double lane road[one each way], well and truly under water.


I have not been able to post these before as we had lost our internet connection. Please note that I did not take these photos, they are taken taken by other folk. I measured more than 200mm of rain over the four days ending Saturday morning.

Steve,
your just getting old and cold it has nothing to do with the weather. Piss Mom off and see how cold it gets

The flood photos look like they could be from Vermont. Has been a lot of flooding here.

I was on a Leopard hunt in July 2008 near Otavi and the temps got into the low 20s almost every night. One day we woke up to rain falling and ice in the livestock troughs. That kind of cold kept the cats from moving.