🐾 Maybe the reason I love animals so much, is because the only time they have broken my heart is when theirs has stopped beating.

Thursday 4 August 2016

What a winter!

Winter is winter, I know, and why anything surprises me is a good question! But this year the seasons have been extremely peculiar. Unlike South Africa's weather, sunny, warm, clear blue skies, even in winter. No. More like the rest of the world's weather!

25th July 2016

After the hectic heat waves we had this past summer, winter has brought in absolutely freezing temperatures and stuff like snow!, hail, floods and tornadoes! Tornadoes? In South Africa?! Well, there you have it. We actually had a few tornadoes.

As the hail started, I thought of running out and moving some of my succulents under cover, but it was already too fierce. 25th July 2016

And rain, In the middle of winter. Not Gauteng weather at all, we are a summer rainfall area. And hail, LOTS of hail, big hail! When it started, my mind was racing. What can I save? My plants are going to be annihilated! What about my garden birds?!


I watched helplessly as the storm got worse and worse, pounding the trees, the plants and wreaking havoc. Luckily my chooks were already in their coop as I had suspected some foul play earlier in the morning and had left them inside.



The hailstorm lasted for about 20 minutes, followed by heavy rain the rest of the day and night. And it took my gardener a full day to clear all the leaves, broken branches and rubble. Mr. Brown, a stray rooster, was in the aviary at the back of the pic, hiding in the shelter provided and the sound of the hail on the tin roof must have been deafening, it certainly was in my house, we couldn't even hear one another talking.

My experience is that, if we have late-winter rain, then probably we are in for a good rainfall season, so that's one positive to look forward to!


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6 comments:

  1. Goodness me. That looks more wintery than my area of the UK usually looks. A few days ago I saw a space weather photo which showed the snow cover in Lesotho.

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    1. I know John, it's totally weird. One normal thing is that we do have our August winds now, but the temperatures are far too low for Autumn.

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  2. What incredibly strange weather - frightening!!! I am glad to read that your chooks were safe and sound.
    Kathryn

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    1. Thanks Kath, the animals are always a worry during adverse weather, something we're not used to here in South Africa. Thanks for stopping by!

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    2. Always a pleasure to drop by, Maree. Hope things are doing well there.
      Kathryn

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    3. thank you Kathryn! Yes, all is well, thank you!

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