What happened?
The past few days saw an interesting mix of winter style and La Nina formation weather. Winter style saw a major vortex area move slowly across the southern oceans, while doing so, rainy weather was brought into the Cape area and northwards (but not as far as our winter rainfall area). As the whole complex system carried on eastwards, yet another secondary formed in the cold, semi-polar air circulating briskly behind the active front. The succeeding ridge of the South Atlantic anticyclone was picking up air about 55 to 60oS latitude and circulating this northward. This cold advection made its presence felt across much of Namibia after the weekend.
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