Winter creeps in

CHILLY weather yesterday forced Windhoekers and people in the South to take out their winter clothes and wrap themselves up tight while people along the coast had to look for their little-used umbrellas.

With strange weather having brought clouds to central and southern Namibia in June, small-stock farmers in south and central Namibia face another danger. They have been warned to take the necessary precautions as very cold weather is expected from today on and could kill their stock.Weather forecaster Odilo Kgobetsi told The Namibian yesterday that the frontal system coming from the Northern and Western Cape was expected to heavily drop temperatures in these parts of the country.Kgobetsi said people in the Northern Cape and in high areas of the Western Cape in South Africa were expecting snow from today on.The system, according to Kgobetsi, had resulted in rain in some parts of Namibia.He said 13 millimetres were measured at Luderitz yesterday morning at 8h00.”This is a lot of rainfall for this time of the year.And this is the amount that fell there from Sunday evening to Monday morning,” he said.He said rainfall was still expected in the southern and central parts of Namibia.Rain of 3.3,5 mm was measured at Karasburg.Rooikop (outside Walvis Bay) measured 0.7 mm while Keetmanshoop got 0.6 mm.They have been warned to take the necessary precautions as very cold weather is expected from today on and could kill their stock.Weather forecaster Odilo Kgobetsi told The Namibian yesterday that the frontal system coming from the Northern and Western Cape was expected to heavily drop temperatures in these parts of the country.Kgobetsi said people in the Northern Cape and in high areas of the Western Cape in South Africa were expecting snow from today on.The system, according to Kgobetsi, had resulted in rain in some parts of Namibia.He said 13 millimetres were measured at Luderitz yesterday morning at 8h00.”This is a lot of rainfall for this time of the year.And this is the amount that fell there from Sunday evening to Monday morning,” he said.He said rainfall was still expected in the southern and central parts of Namibia.Rain of 3.3,5 mm was measured at Karasburg.Rooikop (outside Walvis Bay) measured 0.7 mm while Keetmanshoop got 0.6 mm.