October is normally the first month of the summer rainy season to record good rains. This was emphatically not the case in 2019, with the 1 July to 31 October rainfall amounting to only 15 mm. As if that was not bad enough the full six months to 31 October only produced 16 mm, less… Continue reading Highveld October 2019 Weather
Climate Action Tracker (CAT) Update of 19 September 2019
The CAT is produced by three independent scientific organisations funded by the ClimateWorks Foundation and the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) via the International Climate Initiative. It is a standard reference for global warming specialists. On 19 September they produced a special report (ie outside the normal update cycle) for… Continue reading Climate Action Tracker (CAT) Update of 19 September 2019
Frozen British Pensions – Brexit
Previous blogs have speculated about the impact of Brexit on frozen pensions, specifically whether the treatment of the pensions of expats in the EU, be it a hard or soft exit, will cause parallels to be drawn with current frozen pensions. Some light was thrown on this on 1 September when the Dept of Work… Continue reading Frozen British Pensions – Brexit
Highveld August 2019 Weather
Temperatures. The box and whisker chart below presents figures for Rynfield, Benoni, Gauteng S26 08 411 E028 20 609 Elevation 1644m. For details on how these charts are to be interpreted please see the Highveld Winter Temperatures 2019 blog. The trend is clearly not consistent. 2014 was particularly cool with night temperatures down to -3°… Continue reading Highveld August 2019 Weather
Climate Change Science Part 9 Future Projections
This is the final part of the current series In 2008 David Archer, in Chicago, wrote a series of papers on what we could expect in future of the carbon cycle. He based these on two widely differing assumptions, one where all future anthropogenic emissions were restricted to 1000 GtC (cumulative), if by some miracle… Continue reading Climate Change Science Part 9 Future Projections
Southern Africa Dam Levels
Dam levels have shown a general decline over the last 12 months with the fortunate exception of the Western Cape which was the area most in need of rain. The summary for the whole region is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1. Southern Africa Dams August 2018 With Theewaterskloof having more than 50% of the… Continue reading Southern Africa Dam Levels
Highveld Temperatures 2018/19
There is a significant difference in the patterns of minimum and maximum temperatures for 2018/19 as shown in the following box and whisker chart (an explanation of this type of chart was included in the recent Highveld Winter Temperatures 2019 blog). The second graph is included here to line up with that for temperatures and… Continue reading Highveld Temperatures 2018/19
