Tuesday 17 January 2012
An extended run of cyclone swell will continue in KwaZulu-Natal well after Tropical Depression Dando made landfall in Mozambique yesterday, writes Spike. Looks like a bumper East Coast cyclone season lies ahead.
According to the United Kingdom Met Office, Dando is the first storm to hit this part of Mozambique since the infamous Tropical Storm Domoina in 1984 when more than 200 people died and the region recorded severe flooding. Dando has been dumping a lot of rain over the area in the last 24 hours, but nothing like in 1984.
She has also been responsible for all the east swell hitting KZN over the last few days, peaking yesterday afternoon at 6ft at New Pier in Durban.
And for the next seven days, the supply of swell seems limitless. Day after day, a straight east swell, barely wavering more than a few degrees in direction, pours through, although the Dando effects wear off tonight, with Wednesday and Thursday up to 40% smaller.
However, watch the weekend as a new wodge wends its way into the bay. Friday jacks to 4-5' in howling easterlies, but the weekend and next week hold promise, lots of promise as turbulent, volatile temperature differences, boiling hot weather and all those other good things conspire to create the thermal conflicts needed to kickstart a ferocious can of whoop-ass!
And by the way, this is not a warning in any way. Repeat, this is not a warning. Neither is it a weather alert. For the latest surf and marine forecast for Durban, click HERE
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Thanks Spike
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