Snow Watch 2024

12 Jan 2024 07:45 - 17 Apr 2024 07:28 #78850 by JonWells
Snow Watch 2024 was created by JonWells
This is the official thread for Snow Watch 2024. Feel free to post pictures, information, questions and reports about the snow conditions in the Drakensberg for 2024. The idea is to keep track of the snowfalls, pool information about where the snow is for those that want to go see it, and simply to have a place to express the joy and experiences you may have had if you have witnessed the grandeur of the Dragon clothed in white. This also serves as a historical reference for years to come.

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1) 10 April- Reports of light snow at Afriski and Black Mountain
2) 16 April - Reports of snow on the Central Berg peaks.
Last edit: 17 Apr 2024 07:28 by JonWells.

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04 Apr 2024 10:35 #78980 by ASL-Bivak#
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I'm seeing conflicting reports of snow for this weekend? Some say snow at Giants but others just show rain...

Can anyone give any insight on when/ where it might snow please?

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04 Apr 2024 11:21 #78981 by tiska
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The global forecast models (GFS, ICON, ECMWF) that I have looked at for Friday (5 April), Saturday (6 April) and Sunday (7 April) show the temperatures are too warm for snow (3-6 deg C at 0400 at 3000m or 700 hPa). There is a cold cored cut off low (i.e. breaking Rossby wave) over the northern Cape  but you'd need that system to be a bit further east to get the cold-cored influence. That system does produce some upper air divergence and hence uplift of the air column over Lesotho, hence the forecast rainfall. Let's see if the forecasts in the global models stay that way.
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04 Apr 2024 16:39 #78982 by tiska
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Just to add - I've noticed that many models seems to have a cold bias over the Berg at longish forecast lead times. So, for example, a forecast for Saturday issued on the previous Monday, will be for colder conditions that end up being experienced on Saturday. As the lead time decreases, the models tend to warm up a bit, so that, for example, by Thursday or Friday, the forecast for Saturday (lead-time 2 and 1 days respectively) is noticeably warmer than it was for the forecast issued with a 6 day lead time.
The longer the lead time in a forecast, the more the model likes to simulate its own climatology. As the lead time decreases, it is brought to heel by more recently imposed observed (real) conditions.
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10 Apr 2024 20:14 #79010 by Smurfatefrog
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Some light snow reported yesterday at Afriski and Black Mountain
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